Society of the Army 
of the Cumberland 



Burial of General Rosecrans 
Arlington National Cemetery 
=== May 17, 1902 =^= 







CINCINNATI 

THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY 

1903 






p. 

Author. 
l7Je'03 



February, 1903. 
The Committee on Publication present this volume, con- 
taining a full account of the preparations for and the ceremonies 
attending the burial of our Commander, General Rosecrans, 
at Arlington National Cemetery, under the auspices of the So- 
,ciety. It was the most imposing event of the kind since the 
great dead of our armies began to be gathered in this national 
burying ground. Your committee has taken pleasure in giving 
permanent form to this record of the tribute paid by the Army 
of the Cumherland to the memory and the fame of General 

EOSECRANS. 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Gates P. Thruston, 

W. J. COLBURN^ 

J. W. Steele, 

Committee on Publication. 



Note. — Two days after the distribution of the annual volume 
l)egan, those not mailed were burned in the fire wliich destroyed 
the establishment of our publishers. The Bobert Clarke Company. 
Our Executive Committee ordered a reprint. This will account 
to our members for the delay in receiving the volume. 



CONTENTS. 



Burial of General R(isecrans — 

Ceremonies at Arlington 28 

Wasliingtoa Evening Star's Account 28 

Speaker Henderson presides 31 

Action of Congress 5-9 

Addresses — 

Senator J. B. Foraker 37 

Representative Washington Gardner 50 

Representative C. H. Grosvenor 45 

Speaker I). B. Henderson 31 

Representative W. P. Hepburn 41 

President Roosevelt 34 

Circular to the Society 10 

Classmates of General Rosecrans 25 

Committees of Congress 8-9 

Commitment Service, Rev. J. D. Stafford, D, D 53 

Constitution and By-Laws 129-132 

Escort of Regulars and Marines 19, 30 

Funeral Party 24-27 

General Correspondence — 

From General Rosecrans' Family 54, 55 

With Secretary Cortelyou 17, 18 

With Cabinet Officers 14 

With Members of the Society 59-83 

With Military Societies 66-75 

Historical Paper, Tlie Relief of Rosecrans 84 

Honorary Pall-bearers 21, 24 

In Memoriam jiages 113-125 

Letters — 

To Honorary Pall-bearers 13 

Of Invitation 11, 15 

Letters of Thanks — 

To Colonel George Andrews 20 

To Colonel E. D. Dimmick 57 

To Colonel A. B. Drum 58 

Major Richard Sylvester 20 

Major T. E. True 57 

List of Members — 

Deceased Members • 133 

Active Members 145 

Lieutenant-General Miles' Order 19 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



Memorial Papers — 

General D. S. Stanley 103 

General W. A. Robinson 109 

Officers of the Society, 1901-1902 143 

Organizations Represented 22, 25 

Preparations for the Ceremonies 5 

President Roosevelt's Order 18 

Programme of Exercises 21 

Quartette Choir, St. Patrick's Church 31 

Relief of General Rosecrans (Historical) 84 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



General Rosecrans Frontispiece 

General Rosecrans (War-time Porti*ait) Facing page 5 

Speaker D. B.Henderson " 31 

President Roosevelt " 34 

Senator J. B. Foraker " 37 

Representative W. P. Hepburn " 41 

Representative C. H. Grosvenor " 45 

Representative Washington Gardner " 50 

Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D " 53 

General D. S. Stanley " 103 

General W. A. Robinson " 109 



The Burial of Major-General Rosecrans, 

Arlington National Cemetery, 
May 17, 1902. 



The burial of the remains of Major-General Rose- 
crans at Arlington, nnder the auspices of the Society of the 
Army of the Cumherland, was one of the most imposing events 
of that character which "Washington has witnessed. 

The active participants were: President Roosevelt and 
his Cabinet, especially the Secretaries of War and of the 
E'avy, both Senate and Ilonse of Representatives, the Adju- 
tant-General and his assistants, the army officers at Fort 
Myer, the Artillery and Engineer Battalions, the Battalion 
of Marines, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the 
Grand Army of the Republic, the Union Veteran Legion, 
the Union Veteran Union, the l^ational Guard of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and a large delegation of visiting veterans 
and of the Society of the Army of the CumherJancl. 

The first step in the preparations was to secure the par- 
ticipation of Congress. The following communications w^ere 
addressed to the President j^ro tern, of the Senate and the 
Speaker of the House: 

The Society of the Akmy or the Cumberland, 

WashincxTON, D. C, March 31, 1902. 
Sir: The Society of tlie Army of tlie Cumberland at its last 
Annual Meeting resolved to transfer the remains of the Ijte 
Major-Gexeral William S. Eosecraxs, long the Commander 

(5) 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



of the Army of the Cumberland, and subsequently a member of 
the House of Representatives, from the receiving vault in Los 
AngeleS;, California, where they were deposited, to Arlington 
Cemetery. The burial will take place alwut the middle of May, 
the exact day to be hereafter announced. 

The officers of the Society respectfully ask that the Senate 
:nay be represented at the burial by committee or otherwise. 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. V. BOYXTOX, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
To THE President of the Senate, Washington, D. C. 



IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL 4, 1902. 
Transfer of Remains of Major-General Rosecrans. 

The Speaker: Without objection, the Chair will lay be- 
fore the House a statement from the Society of the Army of the 
Cumberland. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

The Society of the Arjmy of the Cumberland^ 

Washington, D. C, March 31, 1902. 
Sir: The Society of the Army of the Cumberland at its last 
Annual Meeting resohed to transfer the remains of the late 
Major-General William S. Rosecrans, long the Commander 
of the Army of tJie Cumberland, and subsequently a member of 
the House of Representatives, from the receiving vault at Los 
Angeles, California, where they were deposited, to Arlington 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



Cemetery. The burial will take place about the middle of May,, 
the exact day to be hereafter announced. 

The officers of the Society respectfully ask that the House 
of Eepresentatives may be represented at the Inirial by com- 
mittee or otherwise. 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. V. BoYNTOJ«r, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
To THE Speaker of the House of Rephesentatives, Wash- 

IXGTOX. 

Mr. CIrosvexor: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
the present consideration of the resolution, wliich I send to the 
•Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

[HorsE CoxcuRREXT Resolttiox No. 46.] 
Resolved, by the House of Eepresentatives of the United 
States (the Senate concurring), That there be appointed a com- 
mittee by the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker 
of the House to attend the ceremonies incident to the transfer 
of the remains of General William S. Rosecraxs from Cali- 
fornia to the Cemetery at i\rlington, A-'a., said connnittee to be a 
joint committee of the tAvo Houses. 

The Speaker: Is there objection? [After a pause.] The 
'Chair hears none. 

The resolution was considered and agreed to. 



Burial of General liosccrans. 



IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL ii, 1902. 
Committee to Attend the Funeral of W. S. Rosecrans. 

The SpI':aker : The Chair makes the following announce- 
ment : 

The Clerk read as follows: / 

Committee to attend the funeral exercises of the late W. 
S. EosECRANs: W. P. Hepburn, C. H. Grosvenor, Eugene F. 
Loud, George W. Steele, Washington Gardner, Montague 
Lessler, William Elliott, Champ Clark, Amos J. Cummings, 
George W. Taylor, of Alabama. 



IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, APRIL 4, 1902. 

[Extract from Coxgressioxal Record.] 
Transfer of the Remains of General William S. Rosecrans. 

The President fro tempore: The Chair lays before the 
Senate a concurrent resolution from the House of Kepresenta- 
tives, which will be read. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate con- 
curring)^ That there be appointed a committee by the President 
pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to at- 
tend the ceremonies incident to the transfer of the remains of 
General William S. Rosecrans from California to the Ceme- 
tery at Arlington, Va., said committee to be a joint committee 
of the two Houses. 

Mr. Foraker : I ask unanimous consent that the resolu- 
tion mav be now considered. 



Burial of General Eosecrans. 



The President pro tempore: The Senator from Ohio asks 
unanimous consent for the present consideration of the concur- 
rent resohition of the House of Eepresentatives. Is there ob- 
jection? The Cliair hears none, and the concurrent resolution 
is before the Senate. 

j\Tr. For.4_ker: ] now move that the Senate concur in the 
resohition. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Tile President pro tempore: The resolution does not fix 
the number of the committee to be appointed. 

Mr. Foraker : The resolution provides for a committee, but 
not for the numlier. I move that the number be five. 

The President pro tempore: The Senator from Ohio moves 
that the committee on the part of the Senate consist of five 
members. 

The motion was agreed to. 

By unanimous consent, the President pro tempore was 
authorized to appoint the committee on the part of the Sen- 
ate, and Mr. Foraker, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Bate 
and Mr. Pettus were appointed. 

The members of the Society were notified by the following 
circular of the date and order of exercises : 



10 Burial of Genera] Fiosecrans. 



Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIE'IY. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

1901-1902. Gen. James Barnett, Chairman. 

Gen. H V. Bo^ nton, Corresponding Sec'y. C.M'T. J. W. Foley. 

M.\j. John Tweedale, U. S. A., Treasurer. Gen. W. A. Robinson. 

Col. J. W Steele, Recording Sec'y- Gen. P.\ul A. Oliver. 

Maj. Chas. E. Belknap, Historian. M.^J. W. F. Goodspeed. 

Gen. J. G. Parkhurst. 

Ol-KICERS OF THE SOCTETV, EX OFKICIO. 

Washington, D. C, April, 30, 1902. 

Dear Sir: At its last Annual Meeting the Society of the' 
Army of the Cumberland agreed to bring the remains of Major- 
General William S. Eosecrans from Los Angeles, California, 
to Washington, for burial at Arlington. 

The ceremonies will take place at the Pavilion on the Ceme- 
tery Grounds, Saturday forenoon. May the I'^th proximo. 

President Roosevelt will attend, with the members of his 
Cabinet. 

Congress has a])pointed the following Joint Committee to 
participate : 

On the part of the Senate : 

Joseph B. Foraker, Chairman. Redfield Proctor. 

John C. Spooner. William B. Bate. 

Edmund W. Pettus. 

On the part of the House of Representatives : 

William P. Hepburn, Chairman. Montague Lessler. 

Charles H. Grosvenor. William Elliott. 

Eugene F. Loud. Champ Clark. 

George W. Steele. Amos J. Cummincis. 

Washington Gardner. George W. Taylor. 

Such troops as are available in t-he vicinity of Washington 
will form the escort of honor, and all military organizations 
and societies in the District will be invited to take part. 



Burial of General Bosierntns. 11 

The funeral cortege will move from Speahk's Undertaking- 
chapel, 940 F Street N. W., at 10 o'clock a. m.. May 17th. 

CoLOXEL David B. Henderson. Speaker of the House of 
Eepresentatives. who served with General Eosecrans in the 
battle of Corinth, and who is the only Honorary Member of 
the Society of llie Ariiiij of the Cuinherland, will preside at the 
Arlington Pavilion. 

Senator J. B. Foiiaker and General Cjtarles H. Gros- 
VENOR, representing the Society, and Senator Srooner, of the 
Senate Committee,- and Hon. William P. Hepburn and Hon. 
Washington Gardner, of the House Committee, who served 
under General Rosecrans, C^olonel Hepburn having been long 
a member of his stall', will make l)rief addresses. 

The commitment service will l)e by Eev. Dr. D. J. Stae- 
rORD, of St. Patrick's ChurelL 

It is to be hoped that there will be a full attendance of our 
members. 

Those members expecting to attend should ]n-omi)tly notify 
the Corresponding Secretary, that proper arrangements may be 
made for them at the ceremonies. 

By order of the Executive Committee. 

H. V. Boynton, 

Cor res pond in (J Secretarij. 



May 2, 1902. 

Dear Sir: The enclosed circular will inform you in regard 
to the progrannue which the Society of the Army of the Ciunher- 
land will follow in the re-burial of General Kosecrans^ remains 
at Arlington. 

If your organization will do us the honor to a])point a dele- 
gation of four members to represent you on that occasion, a 



12 Burial of General Bosecrans. 

carriage will be at your service, and seats will be reserved upon 
the platform at the Pavilion at Arlington. 
Cordially yours, 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
Major W. P. Huxford, U. S. A., Becorder, Commandery of ilia 
District of Columbia, M. 0. L. L. U. S. 

Similar invitations were addressed to the Fifteenth Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry Association ; Union Veteran Legion ; Union 
Veteran Union ; Department of the Potomac, G. A. R. ; and 
the National Guard, District of Columbia. 



May 2. 1902. 
My Dear Sir: The enclosed circular will inform you in 
regard to the programme for the re-burial of General liosi-:- 
CRANS^ remains at Arlington. Undoubtedly the members of 
General Rosecrans' family will esteem it a mark of very high 
respect if the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, so long attached 
to his headquarters, should be rei)resented at the funeral. I am 
sure that the jjresence of any of your members will give great 
satisfaction to those of our Society wlio may be present. 
Cordially yours, 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
T. H. Smith^ Treasurer, Society of the Fifteenth Fennsylvania 
Cavalry, 170S Mt. Vernon St., Fhiladelphia, Fa. 



May 12, 1902. 

Dear General: The enclosed cireuhir will give you the 

general features of the programme for the burial of General 

RosECRANS^ remains at Arlington on the ITth of May next. 

Understanding that you were a member of his class at West 



Burial of General Rosccmns. IS 

Point, the Society will be glad if you can make it convenient 
to attend the exercises, and will provide a carriage for you upon 
3^our signification of your intention to be present. 

We understand that there are two otlier members of your 
class in the city, namely, Gi-nekal K. J. T. Dana and Colonel 
Jo I IX S. McCalmont, whom we have also invited. 
Very respectfully, 

II. V. BorxTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
General James Longstkeet, The Normaadic, Washington, D. C. 



A letter identical with the following to Lieutenant- 
General Miles was addressed to each of the Honorary Fall- 
bearers: 

May 13, 1902. 

General: The ceremonies attending the burial of the re- 

inains of Major-General William S. Rosecrans will take place, 

under the auspices of the Societi/ of the Arniij of the Camher- 

land, at the Pavilion at Arlington Gemetery, May 17th. at 

11 A. M. 

The family of the General will be gratified if you will 
serve as an honorary pall-bearer on that occasion, and the So- 
ciety of the Army of the Ciunherland will feel honored by your 
presence. 

The funeral cortege will assemble at the Arlington Hotel 
at 9.30 on the morning of May 17th, and move from there 
promptly for the cemetery at 10 o'clock. 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. V. BOYNTON^ 

Corresponding Secretary. 
Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, IJ. S. A., Headquarters 
of the Army, Washington, D. C. 



IJf Burial of Geneim Eosecrans. 

A letter identical Avith the following to Secretary Hay 
was addressed to each Cabinet officer: 

.¥«?/ 13, 1902. 
The Honorable the Secretary of State. 

Sir : The ceremonies attending the interment of the re- 
mains of Genekal Eosecrans. under tlie auspices of the SocicUj 
of the ArDiji of the Cumhcrland. will take place at tlie Pavilion ar 
Arlington Cemetery on Saturday morning. May 17th. The 
funeral cortege will start from the Arlington Hotel at 10 o'clock 
in the morning. 

The veterans of the Amnj of ilie Cinnhcrland will esteem it 
a high honor if you can he present on that occasion. H. in 
the pressure of tlie daily duties devolving upon you, it is pos- 
sihle for you to attend, upon receiving notification to that 
efl'ect, a carriage will he provided for you at the Arlington 
Hotel. 

The President will attend, and will drive direct to Arling- 
ton, and it may he that course would be preferable to you, as it 
would probably save you much time. In that case you could' 
start after the column and reach tlie Pavilion in time for the 
ceremonies. 

The enclosed circular will give you tlie general outline of 
the ceremonies, and a programme more in detail will be here- 
nfter issued. 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 15 

May H, 1902. 
The Hozstorable the Commissioi^ers of the District of 
Columbia. 
Gentlemen : The burial of the remains of Major-Gen- 
ERAL William S. Kosecrans^ long the commander of the Army 
of the Cumberland^ will take place at Arlington Cemetery under 
the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cumherland, on 
May 17th instant. 

The funeral cortege will leave the Arlington Hotel at 10 
o'clock on the morning of tliat day. 

The family of General Eosecrans and the Society of the 
Army of the Cumherland would consider it an honor if the Com- 
missioners of the District could attend these ceremonies. 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary. 



Each member of the Reception Committee was addressed 
as follows: 

3Iay 13, 1902. 
General : The ceremonies attending the burial of the 
remains of Major-General William S. Eosecrans will take 
place, under the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cum- 
herland, at the Pavilion at Arlington Cemetery, May 17th, at 

11 A. M. 

You are respectfully requested to act with General John 
P. Weston^ General E. A. Carman^ Colonel G. C. Kniffin 
and Major John Tweedale^ as a Committee to precede the 
funeral cortege to Arlington, and there receive the President of 
the United States and his Cabinet, and conduct them to their 
seats upon the platform. 

The funeral cortege will leave the Arlington Hotel promptly 



16 Burial of General Rosecmns. 

at 10 o'clock. It is the intention of the President and his 
Cabinet to drive directs to the cemetery in advance of the arrival 
of the column. A carriage will be at the Arlington Hotel for 
your Committee at 9 :30 a. m.^ May 17th. 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 
General J. C. Breckixkidge, IT. S. A.. ITVn- Department, ^Yasl^- 
ington, D. C. 



In accordance with the following requests, the Assistant 
Secretary of the i^avy courteously furnished the Marine Band, 
and secured the attendance of the Battalion of Marines: 

May 13, 1902. 
Hon. Charles H. Darling^ Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 
Washington, D. C. 

Sir: The burial of the remains of General Eosecrans 
"will take place, under the auspices of the Society of the Army of 
the Cumberland, at Arlington Cemetery, next Saturday, May 17th. 
It Avill be a military funeral, and the War Department will fur- 
nish for the escort four troops of Cavalry, a Battery of Artillery 
and the Engineer Battalion. 

If the Navy Department could be represented by the pres- 
ence of the Marine Cor})s, the friends of General Eosecrans and 
the Society of the Army of the Cu.ntherland would esteem it a great 
honor. 

The column will be formed in the vicinity of the i\.rlington 
Hotel in time to leave promptly for the cemetery at 10 o'clock. 
"Jlie foot troops will ])e dismissed at the aqueduct bridge, so as 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 17 

not to impose the march from that point to the cemetery u-pon 
them. 

A programme in detail will be sent you by Thursday. 
Ver}^ respectfully, 
/ Your obedient servant, 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. T. E. Roessle, proprietor 
of the Arlington, the spacious parlors of that hotel were 
placed at the service of the Society for the assembling of the 
funeral party. This also gave the troops the advantage of 
the wide plaza in front for their formation. 

White House, Washington, Maij IJ^, 1902. 
Dear General Boynton : In reply to your letter of the 
lotli instant, I have pleasure in saying that an Order has already 
been issued in regard to the matter to which you refer. 
Enclosed I send you a copy of the Order. 
Very sincerely yours, 

Geo. B. Cortelyou, 

Secretary to the President. 
General H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary^ etc., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

President Koosevelt, without waiting for a request, 
had ordered that all veterans of the civil war in the service 
of the government in Washington should be allowed to par- 
ticipate in the ceremonies. 



IS Burial of General Rosecrans. 

BY THE PRESIDEA^T OF THE UNITED STATES. 

EXECUTIVE ORDER, 

It is hereby ordered that such employes of the Executive 
Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy 
Yard and Station at Washington, D. C, as served in the mili- 
tary or naval service of the United States in the late Civil War 
sliall be excused from duty on Saturday, the 17th instant, to 
enable them to attend the ceremonies incident to the re-burial 
of the late Major-General W. S. Eosecrans. 

(Signed,) Theodore Eoosevelt. 

White House, May 12, 1902. 

May 15, 1902. 

Dear Mr. Cortelyou: Many thanks for your courtesy in 
forwarding a copy of the order of the President. If it can be 
done without interrupting him, will you please express my per- 
sonal thanks, and assure him that the family of General Rose- 
crans and the veterans of the Army of the Cumberland will always 
hold in lasting remembrance his attention to this occasion which 
touches them all so deejDly. 

You will notice that in the enclosed circular we have in- 
cluded the President among those who will make brief remarks- 
While I clearly remember his statement that he did not de- 
sire to make an address, since he was so soon to appear as the 
chief speaker on Memorial day, still it did not seem just the 
thing to me to leave him out entirely, and simply mention him 
as one attending. Of course, the matter will be wholly within 
his wishes, but as none are to do more than make a few re- 
marks, if he will simply take part in a few sentences, it would 
not only gratify all present, but our friends throughout the 
country. 

Cordially yours, 

H. V. BOYNTON. 

Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the President, Wasli- 
ington, D. C. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 19 

Lieutenant-Genekal Miles, commanding the army, is- 
sued the order for the formation of the escort: 

War Department^ Adjutant-General^s Office^ 
Washington, May 13, 1902. 
Commanding Officer, Fort Myer, Virginia. 

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Lieutenant- 
General commanding the army directs that a funeral escort 
consisting of the Third Battalion of Engineers, Second Squad- 
ron, Second Cavalry, and the Fourth Field Battery, is desig- 
nated for the funeral of the late General William S. Eose- 
CRANs, and will form near the Arlington Hotel in time to leave 
there at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, May 17th. 

The escort will conduct the remains to Arlington Cemetery, 
where funeral services, with military honors, will be held. One 
troop of cavalry, with funeral caisson, mounted bearers and flags, 
will report at Speare's undertaking rooms, 940 F Street, North- 
west, receiving remains at 9 :30 a. m., and accompany them to 
the escort at the i\.rlington Hotel, where the honorary pall-bearers 
and other persons attending the funeral will join the column in 
carriages. 

The Engineer Battalion v>'ill be accompanied by its band, 
and upon arrival at the Aqueduct Bridge the battalion and band 
will form in line, saluting the remains as they pass, and then 
be dismissed. The battalion commander will report to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second Cavalry, for fur- 
ther instructions. The Second Cavalry band will place itself 
at the head of the column as the latter enters Fort Myer, and 
will furnish music for the remainder of the ceremony. The 
Field Battery will fire the salvos, or the Cavalry, dismounted, 
fire volleys as may be desired. 

Should the Battalion of Marines form part of the escort, it 
will be dismissed at the Aqueduct Bridge, as directed for the 
Engineer Battalion. 



20 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second Cav- 
alry, is designated to command the escort, and will confer for 
further particulars with General H. V. Boynton. 
Very respectfully, 

Geo. Andrews^ 

Assistant Adjutant-General. 



Washington, May 20, 1902. 
My Dear Major : ^Yhat would official pageants in Wash- 
ington be but for you? I never have anything to do with one 
that I do not at once find myself under the deepest obligations 
to you, to your assistants and your men. 

Let me thank you most earnestly for your attention on 
Saturday at the re-burial of General Eosecrans. The work of 
your force was perfect in giving the great column free space for 
movement, and everybody interested appreciated it very highly — 
but no one more than, 

Your friend, 

H. V. Boynton. 
Major Richard Sylvester, Chief of Metropolitan Police. 



May 22, 1902. 
My Dear Colonel: Will you please accept for the Society 
of the Army of the Cumberland, and for myself personally, this 
expression of the gratitude we feel for the attention which you 
gave to the preparations connected with the ceremonies of 
Saturday last. It was a matter of common remark on all sides 
that no great occasion has passed off in Washington with 
greater smoothness and success than that which you were so 
largely instrumental in organizing. 

Cordially yours, 

H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary, 
Colonel George Andrews, U. S. A., War Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. . 21 

PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES. 

The Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 



Washington, D. C, May 15, 1902. 

BURIAL OF MAJOE-GENEEAL WILLIAM 
STAEKE EOSECEANS, 

At Arlington National Cemetery, May 17, 1902. 

The funeral cortege will leave the Arlington Hotel (Ver- 
mont Avenue and I Streets N. W.) promptly at 10 o'clock a. m. 
The assignment to carriages will begin at 9 :30 o'clock. 

The escort will consist of the following Eegular troops, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick, Second U. S. Cav- 
alry, commanding, preceded by a platoon of Metropolitan Police : 

Band of the Corps of Engineers. 

Third Battalion Corps of Engineers. 

The Battalion Marine Corps. 

Fourth Battery Field Artillery. 
Four Troops of the Second Cavalry. 



Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D. 
Caisson. 

Honorary Pall-bearers. 

Lieutenant-General John M. Schofield, U. S. A. 
Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A. 
Major-General H. C. Corbin, U. S. A. 
Brevet Major-General A. Baird, U. S. A. 
Brigadier-General John M. Wilson, U. S. A. 
Brigadier-General George L. Gillespie, U. S. A. 
Brevet Brigadier-General Thomas M. Vincent, U. S. A. 
Colonel Frank G. Smith, U. S. A. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



Colonel Green Clay Goodloe, U. S. M. C. 

Brevet Major William P. Huxpord, U. S. A. 

Major John M. Farquhar, U. S. V. 

Colonel Henry May, D. C. N. G. 

Hon. George W. Steele, M. C. 

H. Clay Evans, Quartermaster's Sergeant. U. S. V. 

Family. 
President and Cabinet. 

Joint Committee of Congress: 

From the Senate: 

Hon. Joseph B. Foraker. Hon. Redfield Proctor. 

Hon. John C. Spooner. Hon. William B. Bate. 

Hon. Edmund W. Pettus. 

Colonel Daniel M. Ransdell, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

From the House : 

Hon. William P. Hepburn. Hon. Montague Lessler. 

Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor. Hon. William Elliott. 

Hon. Eugene F. Loud. Hon. Champ Clark. 

Hon. George W. Steele. Hon. George W. Taylor. 

Hon. Washington Gardner. 
Colonel Henry Casson, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

Classmates of General Rosecrans at West Point: 

General N. J. T. Dana. 
General James Longstreet. 
Colonel John S. McCalmont. 

Representaiives of the following Organizations in Carriages: 

District of Columbia Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 

Union Veteran Legion. 

Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic. 

Union Veteran Union. 

Commander, National Guard, District of Columbia and Staff. 

Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, U. S. V. 

The Society of the Armi/ of the Cumberland, and other attending veterans. 



Burial of General Eosecrans. 



Committee to receive the President and Cabinet at the Cemetery: 

Brigadier-General J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A. 
Brigadier-General John F. Weston, U. S. A. 
Major John Tweedale, U. S. A. 
Brigadier-General E. A. Carman, U. S. V. 
Colonel G. C. Knipfin, U. S. V. 

At the Pavilion at Arlington, Hon. David B. Henderson, 
Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives, will preside, and 
make opening remarks. 

The Quartette Choir of St. Patrick's Church will render 
^'Lead, Kindly Light." 

Brief remarks will follow from President Eoosevelt, 
Senator J. B. Foraker, Eepresentatives W. P. Hepburn, C. 
H. Grosvenor, and Washington Gardner. 

At the close of these exercises at the Pavilion, the cortege 
will move to the grave. 

Commitment service by Eev. D. J. Stafford, D. D., clos- 
ing with "Nearer, My God, to Thee," by the Quartette. 

Taps. 

Salvo of artillery. 

By direction of the Executive Committee. 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary. 

Note. — It will be observed that the place of assembly lias been 
changed from 940 F Street N. W. to the Arlington Hotel. 



2Jf. Burial of General Bosecrans. 

The funeral coliunn moved pvomptly from the Arling- 
ton at the hour named. The carriages were occupied, as 
indicated below. The President, Secretaries Root and Haj, 
and the Postmaster-General drove direct from the White 
House to Arlington. 

Eeverexd T>. J. Stafford. LL. D. 

Honorary Pall-Bearers : 

Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, U. S. A. 
General H. C. Corbin^ U. S. A. 
General Thos. M. Vincent, U. S. A. 
General Geo. L. Gillespie, U. S. A. 

General Absalom Baird and party. 

General John M. Wilson, U. S. A. 
Colonel Frank G. Smith, U. S. A. 
Colonel Green Clay Goodloe, U. S. M. C. 
Honorable H. Clay Evans. 

Major W. P. Huxford, U. S. A. 
Major John M. Farquhar, U. S. Y. 
Colonel Henry May, D. C. N. G. 



Governor and Mrs. James K. Toole. 
Mrs. H. V. Boynton. 
Edwin Warren Toole. 

Honorable Chauncey M. Depew and Mrs. Depew 

Carl F. Eosecrans. 
Miss Anita D. Rosecrans. 
General H. V. Boynton. 
Joseph Porter Toole. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 25 



Five Congressional Carriages: 
(From the Senate.) 
Honorable Joseph B. Foraker. 
Honorable John C. Spooner. 
Honorable Eedfteld Proctor. 
Honorable William B. Bate. 
Honorable Edmund W. Pettus. 
Colonel Daniel M. Ransdell, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

(From the House.) 
Speaker D. B. Henderson. 
Honorable William P. Hepburn. 
Honorable Charles H. Grosvenor. 
Honorable Eugene F. Loud. 
Honorable George W. Steele. 
Honorable Washington Gardner. 
Honorable Montague Lessler. 
Honorable William Elliott. 
Honorable Champ Clark. 
Honorable George W. Taylor. 
Colonel Henry Casson, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

Classmates of General Eosecrans at West Point : 
General N. J. T. Dana. 
General James Longstreet. 
Colonel John S. McCalmont. 

Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 

Union Veteran Legion. 

Encampment No. 23, Union Veteran Legion. 

Department of the Potomac, G. A. E. 



2Q Burial of General Bosecrans. 



Union Veteran Union. 

National Guard, D. C. 

15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, U. S. Y. 
(Twenty-two in carriages.) 

General Chas. F. Mandeeson. 

General James Barnett. 

Colonel J. W. Steele. 

Justice John M. Harlan, U. S. Supreme Court. 

Colonel John P. Nicholson. 
Major Wm. H. Lambert. 
Colonel Archibald Blakeley. 
Colonel R. H. Pratt, U. S. A. 

Mrs. G. C. Kniffin and party. 

Mrs. John Tweedale. 
Captain Prank G. Bourn. 
Mrs. Mary B. Newcombee. 
Miss Marguerite B. Newcomber. 

Mrs. E. S. Sturgess. 
Miss Marie Boynton. 
Miss Meta Boynton. 
Miss Alma Truax. 

General John Eaton. 
Colonel Henry S. Cohn. 
Captain John Speed. 
Major William R. Lowe. 



Burial of General Baser rans. 27 

Colonel John Clem, U. S. A. 
Honorable Edgar Weeks. 
General E. P. Ewers, U. S. A. 

Honorable Eobert J. Wynne, First Assistant Postmaster 
General. 

Major J. T. Woods. 
Major W. H. Pugh. 
Mr. J. T. Cannon. 
Captain T. W. Talmadge. 

Two carriages for the Press. 

Two carriages to precede cortege containing Committee 
to receive the President and Cabinet at the Arlington 
Pavilion : 

Brigadier-General J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. A. 

Brigadier-General John P. Weston, U. S. A. 

Major John Tweedale, U. S. A. 

Brigadier-General E. A. Carman, U. S. V. 

Colonel G. C. Kniffin, U. S. Y. 

The quartette of St. Patrick's Church. 

There was an immense attendance at the cemetery, the 
spacious Pavilion was crowded, a mass of veterans pressed 
about it to be within hearing of the speakers, and besides 
these there were several thousand in the grounds who had 
taken advantage of President Eoosevelt's thoughtful order 
allowing all veterans to attend. 

The imposing military column was perfect in organiza- 
tion and ''movement. It was composed exclusively of Keg- 
ulars and Marines. Major Kichakd Sylvester, Chief of 
Metropolitan Police, rendered most effective service in keep- 



Burial of General Rosccrans. 



ing the points of formation and the line of march entirely 
clear. 

Upon" arriving at Arlington, General J. C. Breck- 
inridge, Chairman of the Committee to receive the Presi- 
dent and his Cabinet, with his Associate Committeemen, 
General Weston, General Carman, Colonel Kniffin and 
Major Tweedale, recei-^-ed and condncted the distingnished 
participants to their seats. 

The following from the Evening Star of May 17th will 
show the impression which the event made upon Washing- 
ton: 

TRIBUTE TO A SOLDIER. 

Great Men at the Grave of General Rosecrans. — Roosevelt Speaks.— 
Eulogies by Henderson, Foraker and Others. — Great Military Demon- 
stration at Arlington. — Many Public Men Present. 

The President of the United States, members of bis Cabinet 
and men well known in public life and in the army, gathered 
to-day to pay the last honors to .General William S. Rosecrans. 
Members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland paid a 
loving final tribute to their dead Commander. The services at 
Arlington, where lie so many of the loved Union dead, were 
simple and impressive. There was an absence of ostentation. 

It was a gathering of men, many of them veterans of the 
Civil War, who shed tears at the grave of the man they loved as 
a soldier leader. The man who was such a conspicuous figure 
in the war for the preservation of the Union was consigned to 
the earth of the old home of the leader of the" "lost cause," 
against whom he fought. It was an occasion replete with pathos 
and with patriotism. 

The morning was misty, and from the lowering clouds there 
came at times spirts of rain. As the procession reached the 
historic place of the dead the sun burst through the clouds as if 
nature were anxious to i^articipate in the exercises and had 



BuruiJ of General Rosecrans. 29 

taken this means of expressing her feelings for the man whose 
memory was to be honored. 

President Eoosevelt made a speech tliat will stamp him 
for all time to come as a man wlio can rise to an occasion of the 
kind, and who has the ability to express himself in the interest 
of furthering the patriotism that animates the peo])Io over which 
he rules. 

On tlie stage were three venerable soldiers of the government, 
men Avho were classmates of General Rosecrans. Towering 
above all was the commanding form of General James Long- 
street, Avho fought valiantly in the Confederate cause. Beside 
him were General X. J. T. Dana and Colonel John S. Mc- 
Calmont. On the stage there were also representatives of the 
Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veteran Union, the Grand 
Army of the Eepul)lic, the National Guard of the District of 
Columbia, and members of the Society of the Army of the Gum- 
he rland. 

After the services, which included the addresses by the 
President and other distinguished personages, the body was 
lowered to the grave in a foremost place in the home of the 
Union dead. Throughout the services there was a feeling of 
awe and reverence on the part of the assemblage. Only once 
or twice did applause follow the words of the speakers, and 
then it was when a patriotic sentence or inspiration made it al- 
most incumbent upon the listeners to attest their appreciation. 

General Schofield, who fought throughout the Civil War, 
sat with bowed head as he listened to the speeches. Brought 
back to him forcibly was the history of the great struggle. At 
his side were others of the honorary pall-bearers, all of whom had 
seen service in the great war. 

The body of General Rosecrans was brought to this city 
for reinterment from Los Angeles, California. His death oc- 
curred about four years ago. 

The funeral cortege formed in front of the Arlington Hotel 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



at 9 :30 o'clock. Many persons distinguished in official life 
and in the army of the United States gathered there an hour 
before. Strapped to a caisson was the casket containing the 
body of the dead warrior. Members of the Loyal Legion and 
other military organizations mingled in the crowd in front of 
the hotel. The sound of a trumpet brought the soldiery into 
place in the procession. 

The escort consisted of the following regular troops : Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Eugene D. Dimmick^ Second United States 
Cavalry, commanding, preceded by a platoon of the Metropolitan 
Police; band of the Corps of Engineers; Third Battalion, Corps 
of Engineers; the Battalion Marine Corps; the Fourth Battery 
Field Artillery, and four troops of the Second Cavalry. The pro- 
cession moved promptly at 10 o'clock. 

General H. V. Boynton, who was a lifelong friend of 
General Eosecrans^ having served with him during the Civil 
War, and who is Corresponding Secretary of the Society of the 
Army of the Cumberland, under whose auspices the services were 
held, had charge of the arrangements. 

An hour before the cortege arrived at Arlington a large 
crowd was gathered within the Pavilion. Grand Army of the 
Eepublic veterans, men who had fought with ''Old Eosy" in 
the fierce campaigns for the j)reservation of the L^nion, were 
much in evidence. Tears welled to their eyes as they recalled 
the days of camp and field. There were many women in the 
audience. A number of the forward rows of seats were reserved 
for the distinguished guests of the Army of the Cumberland. 

The President arrived shortly in advance of the funeral 
procession. In the President's carriage were Postmaster Gen- 
eral Payne and Secretary of War Eoot. The President and 
party were met at the entrance of the Pavilion l)y the reception 
committee. General Breckinridge^ chairman of the com- 
mittee, grasped the President's hand cordially. President 
EoosEVELT wore a long frock coat of black. He raised his 





( I 



Burial of General Eosecrans. 31 

high silk liat. a word was exchanged with the nienil)ers of the 
committee, and he took his place on the stand. Secretary 
("ORTELYOU accompanied the President's party, and occupied a 
seat next to Secretary liooT. The audience arose as tlie Presi- 
dent came in view. 

The sound of a dirge by tlie Second Cavalry Band announced 
the approach of the funeral party. The head of the column 
passed the Pavilion and around to the Xorth. where it came to a 
stop, when eight Sergeants of the Second Cavalry carried the 
casket to the Pavilion and placed it upon the dais in front of 
the platform. The casket was draped with the American flag. 
A bouquet of La France roses tied with ril)bon of purple and a 
sheath of ferns and innnortelles were on the casket. P^ollowing 
the casket were Governor and Mrs. Toole, of Montana, and Miss 
Eosecrans. Mrs. Toole was a daughter of General Kosecrans. 
A son and grandson of General Rosecrans came next. Senator 
DePew, General Boynton and others of the distinguished party 
followed. The members of the family took seats next to the casket. 

Speaker Henderson, of the House of Representatives, who 
later delivered an oration, called the assemblage to order. 

After the noted Quartette Choir of St. Patrick's Church 
had rendered ''Lead, Ki)idlij Light,'" General Henderson 
spoke as follows: 

Members oe the Society of the Army of the Cumberland: 
You have assigned to me the sacred duty of presiding to-day 
M'hen you, are about to lay away to his final rest your old Com- 
mander, Major-General William Starke Eosecrans. Few 
generals of the Civil War had a stronger hold upon the officers 
and men who fought under their command. They respected, they 
loved him, and that love is attested by this act of yours in 
bringing the body of your old Commander from the Golden 
Gate to lay him away in your midst in this sacred and historic 
City of the Dead. 



32 ' Burial of General liosi'rrans. 

While the liistory of Carnifex Ferry, luka, Corinth, Stone's 
Eiver and Chickanianga will be his great monuments as a 
soldier, his grave at Arlington Heights will be a sacred spot 
visited by you and your descendants and the lovers of liberty 
throughout the coming centuries. 

I am not a soldier worshiper, if the only claims of the 
soldier are marked by human graves or great victories to 
command the devotion, respect and love of the country. The 
soldier's aims must be analyzed and understood, and these must 
show that he comprehended that for which he fought, and that 
love of country rose above the amljition to ])e a great fighter. 
The plow is better than the sword ; the school-book is a better 
guide than the work on military tactics; the builder is better 
than the destroyer ; the maker of homes is better than the maker 
of graves, and yet if the work of the soldier is to protect the 
Plow, the School and the Home, he is entitled to the respect 
accorded to the valor of his heart and arm. 

Following the life of General Eosecrans^ from his birth- 
place in Kingston Tow^nship, Ohio, to his resting place here, the 
faithful student of his life must credit his acts with the loftiest 
motives of a soldier. Educated at the Military Academy and 
graduating as an engineer, he soon resigned his commission to 
enter upon the struggles of a business life, and undoubtedly 
would never have been heard of as a soldier but for the Civil 
War and the call of his country to resume his sword. 

In every position held by General Rosecrans his noble 
character was manifest. As a soldier; as a Member of Congress; 
as Minister to Mexico; as Register of the Treasury; as an 
engineer and business man, he showed al)ility, integrity and an 
aljsolute devotion to the noblest ambitions of the American 
citizen. 

I had the pleasure of serving under his command at the 
battle of Corinth, and also served with him in the House of 
Representatives where our relations Ijecame intimate and most 



Biin'itJ of General Rosecrans. S3 

friendly. He was one of the most fearless officers that I ever saw 
in battle. He seemed to be unconscious of danger. On the fourth 
of October, 1862, when the armies of Price and Van Dorn were 
pressing our lines and symptoms of our falling l)aek were mani- 
fest, he suddenly dashed between the Federal and Confederate 
lines like the very spirit of war. He passed but a few steps in 
front of where I was. I can feel his presence yet. His hat had 
blown off. His firmly set face seemed as though he was made 
for a god of battle. Swinging his sword he called out to us: 

"Stand by your flag and country, my men !" 

How he escaped. God only knows. It seemed as though the 
very air was full of lead, and death was holding high carnival 
along his pathway, and yet fearless he rode into the very teeth 
of death, rallying successfully his men for the mighty struggle 
before them. That splendid, fearless, heroic dash was the death- 
knell to the armies of Price and Van Dorn. 

At the battle of Stone's Eiver, history tells us that his 
jjersonal efforts saved the day. He was not found in the rear 
beyond the reach of bullets, but in the very front of the danger 
where shot and shell were making death's music. All about 
him men and horses were shot down in his immediate presence, 
and the reeling columns of the Federal Army were re-united by 
his fierce and fearless leadership. No detail escaped his eagle 
eye. Commands out of ammunition were directed by him to 
the spot where ammunition could be found. He did not wait 
for aides-de-camp to convey his orders, but would dash up and 
direct commanders of brigades and indicate the points in the 
field where ammunition was to be found, and ordered brigades 
to points of the field in order to strengthen the shattered lines. 

No more fearless man ever faced death than this dear com- 
rade who sleeps in our midst this morning. 

General Eosecrans, sleep peacefully in the bosom of the 
country you fought to save. You have earned a rest in her 
bosom; but, General Rosecrans, no single grave can hold you. 



SJf Burial of General "Rosecrans. 

for you will be buried in the hearts of all the soldiers who 
fought under your command, and in the hearts of an apprecia- 
tive, grateful, loving country. 

General Henderson then introduced President Roose- 
velt. The President had not expected to speak at anv 
lengtli, as he was to be the orator on Decoration Day in the 
same place. He, however, yielded, just before starting for 
Arlington, and agreed to speak for a few minutes. His stir- 
ring memorial address was therefore extemporaneous. He 
said: 

Speaker Henderson ; and you the Comrades of the Great 
Chief wpiose re-burial in the National Cemetery 
here at Arlington we have met together to com- 
memorate : 

The Speaker in his address has well said that the l)uilder 
rather than the destroyer is the man most entitled to tlie honor 
among us; that the man who builds up is greater than he who 
tears down; and that our homage should be for the fighting man 
who not only fought worthily but fought in a worthy cause. 
Therefore for all time, not merely the people of this great re- 
united country, l)ut the nations of numkind who see the hope 
for ordered liberty in what this country has done, will forever 
hold you, the men of the great Civil War, and the leaders 
like him whose mortal remains are to be put to-day in their 
final resting place, in peculiar honor, because you were soldiers 
who fought to build; you were upbuilders; you were the 
men to whose lot it fell to save, to perpetuate, to make 
stronger the great national fabric, the foundations of which had 
been laid by the men who fought under him whose home at 
Mount Vernon stands as an equally prized memorial of the jjast 
with Arlington. It is no chance that has made Mount Vernon 
and Arlington here in the neiohborhood of Washington, the 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



tAvo groat memorials of the nation's past. One commemorates 
the founding and the other the saving of the nation. If it were 
not for what Arlington symbolizes. Mount Vernon would mean 
little or nothing. If it were not for what was done b}' Rosk- 
CRANS and his fellows, the work of Washington would have, 
crumbled into bloody chaos and the deeds of the founders of 
this Eepublic be remembered only because they had begun 
another of the many failures of the spirit of liberty in this 
world. Without the work you did, the work of the men who 
fought to a successful close the Eevolution would have meant 
nothing. To you it was given to do the one great work which it! 
left undone would have meant that all else done by our people 
Avould have counted for nothing. And you left us a re-united 
country, and therefore the right of brotherhood with and of 
]iride in the gallantry and self devotion of those who wore the gray, 
who were pitted against you in the great struggle. The very 
fact that we appreciate more and more as the years go on, the 
ill! importance to this country and to mankind of your victory — 
that very fact makes it more and more possible for us to recognize 
in the heartiest and frankest manner the sincerity, the self- 
devotion, the fealty to the right as it was given to them to see 
the right, of our fellow Americans against whom you fought — 
and now the reunion is so complete that it is useless to allude to 
the fact that it is complete. (Applause.) And you left us 
another lesson in brotherhood. To-day you come here, comrades 
of the Armij of the Civmherlatid, the man who had a commission 
and the man wlio fought in the ranks, brothers, because each 
did what there was in him to do for the right. Each did what 
he could and all alike shared ecpially in the glory of the deed 
that was done. (3fficer and enlisted man stand at the bar of 
history to be judged not by the difference of rank, but by whether 
they did their duties in their respective ranks. (Applause.) 
And oh, of how little count, looking back, the difference of rank 
compared with the doing of the duty! What was true then is 



36 Burial of General nosecmns. 

true now. Doing the dnty Avell is what counts. In any audience 
of this kind one sees in the highest official and social position 
men who fought as enlisted men in the armies of the Union or 
in the armies of the Confederacy. All we ask is, did they do 
their duty? If they did. honor to them! Little we care what 
particular position they held, save in so far as the holding of 
exalted position gave the man a chance to do great and peculiar 
service. 

I shall not try to eulogize the dead General in the presence 
of his comrades, in the presence of his fellow countrymen who 
have come to honor the memory of the man against whom they 
were pitted in the past — who come here because they now. like 
us, are Americans and nothing else, devoted to the I^nion and to 
one flag. (Applause.) I shall not try to sjieak of his services in 
the presence of those who fought through the Civil War, who 
risked the loss of life, who endured the loss of liml), who I'ought 
as enlisted men or came out boys not yet ready to enter college, but 
able to bear commissions in the army of the United States as the 
result of three or four years of service with the colors. There are 
those of each class of whom I have spoken who have addressed or 
will address you to-day. They are entitled to speak as comrades of 
the great dead. But the younger among us are only entitl('(l to 
pay to the great dead the homage of those to Avhom ordered 
liberty has been handed down as a heritage because of the blood, 
and of the sweat, and of the toil of the men who fought to a 
finish the great Civil War. Great were the lessons you taught 
us in war. Great have been the lessons you have taught us in 
peace since the war. Sincerely and humbly the men who came 
after you hasten to acknowledge the debt that is owing to you. 
You were the men of the mighty days who showed yourselves 
equal to the days. We have to-day lesser tasks; but shame to 
us if we flinch from doing or fail to do well these lesser tasks, 
when you carried to triumphant victory a task as difficult as 
that which was set you ! Here, in the presence of one of the 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 37 

illustrious dead whose names will remain forever on the honor 
ndl of the greatest Eepul)lic upon which the sun has ever shone, 
lu re in the presence of the dead, it behooves all of us, young and 
old, solemnly and reverently to pledge ourselves to continue un- 
dimmed the traditions you have left us; to do the work, what- 
ever that work may be, necessary to make good the work that 
you did; to acknowledge the inspiration of your careers in war 
and in peace; and to remind ourselves once for all that lip 
loyalty is not the loyalty that counts. The loyalty that counts 
is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than in words ; 
and therefore we pledge ourselves to make good by our lives 
what you risked your li\es to gain and keep for the nation as a 
whole. (Prolonged applause.) 

General Henderson next introduced Senator Foraker, 
who served under General Roscrans, and represented the 
Senate: 

Mr. Speaker, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

I had only a slight personal acquaintance with ClENEiiAL 
EosECRANSj and yet my relations to him were such that I had 
occasion to study him, and to know him tolerably well in all 
the characters in which he appeared before the American 
people. 

He was born in Ohio ; he was educated there, and was sent 
from there to the Military Academy at West Point. Later, 
when he resigned from the Eegular Army, he returned to Ohio, 
and established his legal residence there, and continued a citizen 
of that State until the beginning of the Civil War. when he re- 
entered the military service as Colonel of the "^od Ohio Regi- 
ment. 

In that organization there was a most remarkable collection 
of great men, who were destined to rendt'r distinguished |)ublic 
services. With Eosecrans as Colonel, were associated E. P. 
ScAMMON, who afterwards became a prominent General in the 



38 Burial of General Bosecraiis. 

Union Army; Stanley Matthews, who subsequently became 
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; 
EuTHERFORD B. Hayes, who made a splendid record as a soldier, 
attaining the rank of Major-General of Volunteers, and who 
afterwards became President of the United States; and also 
William McKinley, who rose from the rank of pri\ate in Com- 
pany E of that Regiment to be its Major, and whose name as 
President of the United States has become familiar to the whole 
world. 

These associations made General Eosecrans endeared to all 
Ohioans. But there was more still to attach the people of that 
State to him. 

His first service was in West Virginia. He there com- 
manded a numl)er of Ohio Eegiments, among them the 12th. 
which Avas recruited in that part of the country where I lived, and 
the Colonel of which was killed in the battle of Carnifex Ferry 
Avhere General Eosecrans commanded. 

If I had had no other relation than these to Genehal 
Eosecrans, they would have been sufiicient to have interested 
me in his character, and to have led me to study his qualities 
and appreciate his s])lendid services; l)ut it was my fortune to 
serve for a time in a humble capacity in the Arnn/ of the Cam- 
he rland while he was its Commanding General. 

There is no impression made on the mind of a young 
volunteer that is dee])er or more lasting than that which he 
acquires of his Connnander. 

General Eosecrans came to the Army of the Cumherland a 
growing man. His successes in West Virginia, and at luka and 
Corinth, had given the country and the Army a constantly in- 
creasing confidence in his ability to handle troops, plan cam- 
paigns and successfully fight l)attles. 

At Stone's Elver, his first battle after he took his new com- 
mand, he more than vindicated all expectations. Hi no contest 



Biifuil of General Bosecrans. 39 

of the war was tlie Commanding Officer i)ut to a more severe test 
than he was on that field. He had carefully and skillfully 
planned the disposition of his troops and the part assigned to 
each wing and division of his army, but at the very outset of 
the first day's battle his right wing was overwhelmed, and his 
whole army put in jeopardy. 

In the midst of a most furious storm of battle he calmly, yet 
quickly, energetically, and with splendid executive ability, hurried 
re-enforcements from tlic left to the right, formed a new line, most 
advantageously placed his batteries and sup))orts of infantry, and 
made ready for the successful resistance and re[)ulse of an on- 
slaught that seemed almost irresistil)le. 

In the accomplisl)ment of this re-foi-iiiation of lines and splen- 
did result he sliowed not only his capacity for command, luit also a 
bravery and heroism that excited the admiration of all his troops. 
There was no firr* of musketry or artillery too severe for him to ride 
into tlie midst of it to give his commands, and to personally superin- 
tend their execution. Wlien officers al)out him suggested the pos- 
sibility of defeat his answer was, "We will win this battle or 
die here." 

It Avas his sound judgment, undismayed bearing, incom])a- 
rable courag':> and fearless exposure of his own life that inspired 
his troops, and gave them the renewed courage and hope that finally 
won the victory. 

I speak of his conduct in this battle because it was on that 
bloody field that General Rosecrans gained the confidence and 
admiration of every man in the Army of tlie Cuinbcrland down to 
the humblest jjrivate in the ranks. From that time forward that 
firmy was literally "his to command." 

There is no time on this occasion to speak of other cam}wigns 
or other battles. It is enough to say that although after Cliicka- 
manga he was relieved of the command of the Armij of Hie Cuinbcr- 
land, yet his cami)aigns and movements had been so brilliant that 



-fO Burial of General Rosecrans. 

his reputation as a soldier will stand the scrutiny of history and 
forever excite the admiration of the students of military character 
and military men. 

Others may speak of his public services in civil life. The 
honors thus conferred upon him were but an expression of the grati- 
tude of his countrymen for his great contribution to the preservation 
of the Union, and the perfection of the Constitution. 

In view of considerations such as have l)een named I felt it a 
duty to come here to-day, and say, as a representative of the State of 
his lurth, and the State to which he always looked as his home, and 
also as a humble representative of the army he commanded when 
he rendered his most conspicious service, that his comrades regarded 
him as a man of lovable character, of sterling |)atriotism. of inflex- 
ible pur|)ose, and as a soldier of uncommon ability, distinguished for 
his bravery, his daring and his heroism, and as a comuumding 
general, who in the direst stress of hottest battle, ever showed him- 
self cool, calm, collected, yet quick, energetic and resolute to execute 
his concei)tions. 

He was an extraordinary man. He belonged to a class of great 
men, who seemed to have been j^repared for the great emergency 
he helped his country to meet. 

He was cotemporary in Ohio with such brilliant minds and 
capable soldiers as General 0. M. Mitcuel, the great astronomer, 
the first commander of what afterwards hecaniiitheArmyofthci'mii- 
herland. General William H. Lytle, the soldier, lawyer and poet, 
and General Joshua W. Sill, in many respects the gentlest and 
most lovable sacrifice Ohio laid upon the country's altar in that 
great struggle. They were all men of much the same general char- 
acter, they were all cultured, refined gentlemen, fit representatives of 
the highest and best types of American citizenship. Sill and 
Lytle had very similiar soldier experiences. They were both 
young, both commanded brigades under Kosecrans. and 1ioth 
were killed in battle — Sill while oallantlv leading a charge at 




fHM^cyvi, 



Burial of General Rosecrans. J/I 

Stone's River, and Lytle while gallantly leading a charge at 
Chickamauga. 

It is most fitting that he whom we to-day lay at rest should have 
a place in this beautiful spot with these sleeping heroes of the Na- 
tion. He well earned the great honor. 

Soon the last of these distinguished commanders will have been 
laid to rest. As time passes these occasions become more and more 
solemn and impressive. They all have lessons for the living. 

If there is one feature of this occasion more to be appreciated 
than another it is that as we meet here to })ay final tribute to 
General Rosecuans, we see gathered with us among the mourners 
at his grave distinguished soldiers against whom he fought, no one 
of them regretting the result of that great struggle, l)ut all rejoic- 
ing in the fact that the Nation's victory was their victory as well, 
and that our union of States has been preserved for a common heri- 
tage, and a common blessing, to all our people, and that we are to go 
forward shoulder to shoulder, the Blue and the Gray alike, through 
the years of the future, to a common destiny greater and grander 
than any language has yet described. 

Colonel William P. Hepburn, Chairman of the House 
Committee, who served on General Rosecrans' staff, fol- 
lowed Senator Foraker. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

It was my good fortune at a time when General Rosecrans 
was in command of the Army of the Mississippi and the Army of the 
Cumberland to be a member of his military family. I had an op- 
portunity to know him and to observe his military conduct, and with 
the enthusiasm of youth, I formed the highest estimate of his per- 
sonal and professional worth. The reflections of forty years, and 
the experience that comes with age, have only strengthened the 
firm conviction that I then had. that General Rosecrans was one 
of the great military personages of his time. 



Jf.S lUiriid of General Bosecrans. 

In the opinion of many prominent military critics the strategy 
involved in his campaigns compares most favorably with that of 
any of the commanders on either side in the War of the Kebellion. 
The movements of his troops in the campaigns of luka, Corinth, 
Mnrfreesboro, Tullahoma and Chattanooga, so far as they were de- 
pended upon, or could be controlled by General Eoseceans, were 
beyond reasonable criticism, and it is a safe declaration that his move- 
ments, when not interfered with by others, were invariably crowned 
with success. 

The critics of General Eosecrans point to operations in the 
vicinity of Chattanooga as furnishing contradiction of the statement 
that has just been made. They point to the battle of Chickamauga 
as a disaster, failing to remember that the battle of Chickamauga 
was only one of the incidents of the Chattanooga campaign, which 
was undertaken for the purpose of securing Chattanooga to the 
Federal troops as the base of future operations ; and it will be re- 
membered that having secured that great prize of most successful 
strategy, the check his army received at Chickamauga did not re- 
sult in the loss of the objective of the campaign. 

There are other circumstances and other considerations to be 
thought of in connection with the battle of Chickamauga. entirely 
relieving General Eosecrans from the responsii)ility for whatever 
disaster occur^-ed to Federal arms on that l)attlefield. 

It must be remembered that advices from Washington to 
General Eosecrans persistently informed him that the Confeder- 
ate troops were endeavoring to escape him. He was constantly 
urged to greater activity, lest Bragg would escai)e — advices making 
necessary the dispersion of his troops to such points as, when the 
real facts were known, made concentration dilficult and dangerous. 
No word of suggestion came to him that Longstreet and his vet- 
erans were being transferred from the Eapijahannoek to the Ten- 
nessee, and that the forces of Bragg were augmented by twenty 
thousand troops that were the equals of any troops on earth. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. JfS 

In this battle occurs one of those curious instances, apparently 
trival in tliemselves, yet working results of most important charac- 
ter. One of the divisions was in the line of battle, but in eelielon 
of brigades. A staff officer approaching from the refused Hank 
got the impression that the division was not in line and so reported. 
To remedy the supposed evil, an order was given that did, in fact, 
make an interval in the line equal to a division front. This error 
was made fatal by the time of its occurrence. It was at the mo- 
ment when LoNGSTKEET was delivering his impetuous attack, and it 
became possible for a portion of his advancing column to rush 
through this interval in the Federal line, cutting it in two, and mak- 
ing it possible to secure a flanking position on each fragment of the 
line. 

Surely no fair critic could impose responsil)ility upon the 
General commanding for a disaster of this character. At the time 
of its occurrence General Eosecrans was on the right, and was on 
that portion of his line that was permanently separated from the 
balance of the army. 

General Eosecrans was a careful student of the great cam- 
paigns. He was very familiar with them. He loved to talk about 
them. There were few military students more thoroughly familiar 
with this l)ranch of his professional learning. While to most 
persons the General would seem to be of nervous temperament, 
prone to excitability, yet, as a matter of fact, in great emergencies, 
he was the personification of coolness. Xo emergency, no excite- 
ment, no approaching disaster deprived him of his capacity for 
thought, for concentration, for the use of tluit that he knew ; and 
while it is true that he loved the higher studies of the art of war. 
yet he was never negligent of the minor affairs incident to the etli- 
ciency of an army. Clothing, rations, ordnance, transportation, ajn- 
munition. hospital su])i)lies. all received the careful attention of tlie 
General commanding, and he was ever alert looking to the discipline^ 
and efficiency of his army. 



-^-4 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

New troops were not fond of the General. He made them 
work. He believed that drill was essential to discipline. The new 
i?oldier under such a commander rarely felt kindly to him, but later 
on, when he learned the value of discipline and of obedience, when 
he learned of the new power that came to him from these sources, 
his early impressions changed to those of admiration and affection. 
And there were few, if any, of our commanders that were more 
popular with the troops that had been for long time under his com- 
mand than was General Rosecrans. 

He was a lovable man and all those who knew him well did 
love him. Kind, considerate, amiable and usually gentle to his in- 
feriors and his equals, they gave him unstintedly of their regard. 
But those who knew General Rosecrans best recognized in him 
a defect that militated greatly against his success as a commander 
of armies. While he was considerate and regardful of his inferiors 
and his equals, there was something in his temperament that put 
discord and sometimes enmity between him and his superiors in 
rank. 

When in A'irginia there was disagreement between him and 
McClellan, as there was between him and Grant, when he was 
in command of the Army of the Mississippi and Grant was his im- 
mediate superior. 

After his promotion to the command of the Army of the Cum- 
herland we find the same character of disagreement between the 
General and Halleck and the War Department. I am not cap- 
able of determining who, if either party in these controversies, was 
to blame. I simply speak of their existence and suggest the prob- 
al)le effect they may have had upon grave interests. 

It is scarcely fair, in determining the merits of the general 
officers of the Federal Army evolved during the War of the Rebel- 
lion, to compare those who wrought in the earlier periods of the war 
with those who secured their greatest distinction towards its close, 
for the policy of the government was markedly different in those 




'[/nSv 



Burial of General Rosecraus. J.i5 

two periods. In the earlier one, the interference of the Washington 
autliorities with the plans of campaigns and the purposes of distant 
commanders is known. In the latter part of the war, yielding to 
the pressure of a wise public opinion, the Washington authorities 
were compelled to desist from such interference and to permit the 
plans of generals to be unthwarted by either advice or command. 

So, too, in the early days of the war, dispersion was the rule with 
the Washington authorities, and many inefficient armies and many 
mimic theaters of war existed. Later on, the wisdom of concen- 
tration of force was manifest. Army and army corps were brought 
together. A campaign involving the whole country was inaugu- 
rated under the direction of one man, the beneficent effects of which 
were seen in the capture of Atlanta and the surrender at A])pomattox. 
If this policy of non-intervention on the part of the Washington 
authorities, this policy of concentration — the later policy of giving 
active, earnest support and co-operation to the two Generals com- 
manding great armies had been inaugurated in Eosecrans' time, 
and he could have had that same measure of co-operation and sup- 
port that was later given to Sherman and Grant, who can tell 
what would have been the measure of his success? Who can say 
that he would not have been the great central figure of his 
time ? 

General Charles H. Geosvenor, of the House Com- 
mittee, who also served with distinction in the Army of the 
Vumherland, was next on the programme. He said: 

'Mn. CiiAnaiAN, Comrades of the Army of the Cumberland, 
Ladies and Gentlemen : 
I esteem it a high honor to be present to-day in the capacity 
which has l)een assigned to me. I deem it a much higher honor 
to have served in the War of the Ivel^ellion in tlie old Army of the 
Cuinherland under the chieftains who made that armv immortal. 



JfO Burial of General nosecrans. 

I had the honor to serve under General Eosecrans from the time 
he appeared at the head of the Fourteenth Army Corps in the fall 
of 18()3. until his retirement from that army after the camiiaion 
of Chickanuiuoa. so that I had al)undant ojjportunity to know some- 
thing of his character and achievements. He came to us Avith a 
good reputation already estahlished. My distinguished friend, 
CoLOXEL Hepburn, has well described the characteristics of his 
achievements in Mississippi, and no man can do it l)etter. for he was 
of the very operations which he has described. As I have said, 
General Rosecrans came to us with a reputation already estab- 
lished, and he found an army of no mean character and no poor 
record. It was an army which had already served under Sherman 
and BuELL and had achieved at least a character for endurance 
and pertinacity if it had not already achieved a record of great vic- 
tories. It had the material of the military artisan ready to com- 
mand, and it was molded into the magnificent Ixxly that achieved 
immortality in its later career. Xo man was ever better calculated 
to organize an army and fit it for service than was Eosecrans, and 
he took the material that assembled at N^ashville. coming as it did 
from various directions and imorganized, so far as former organiza- 
tion was concerned, and molded it into a column of fighting men, 
not yet quite prepared for Stone's Eiver. l)ut which marched from 
Murfreesboro on the 24th day of June, 18G3, an incomparalile army. 
The Battle of Stone's Eiver, fought under the immediate eye of 
Rosecrans, was his greatest achievement up to thfit day. It was 
fought under many disadvantages, the enemy being upon its own 
heath, as it were, and our arnw exposed to a long march in the most 
inclement of weather, and yet it was in this battle that Eosecrans 
demonstrated his own personal fitness for leadership and won un- 
dying glory. When a portion of his army faltered and seemed to be 
going into confusion, it was the personal interference of Rosecrans, 
his personal dash and aplomb, his personal appearance in the very 
acme of personal danger that made him afterwards and from that 



Burial of General Rosecrans. ^7 

moment the idol of the Army of the Ciimherland. Xo man would 
hesitate to go where Eoseckans led. 

We remained six months at Murfreesboro. We had no fighting 
that we called fighting. We had no battles that we called battles. 
We had some affairs that in early days would have been described 
as great battles, but we did not so look upon them, and especially 
we did not so look upon them after the achievements of later days. 
Of all the results of the war nothing more grandly marked the true 
characteristics of Eoseckans as a soldier and his fitness for com- 
mand than his organization of the army at Murfreesboro, the plan 
of his TuUahoma campaign and the results thereof. Bragg^ 
securely lodged in the mountains on this side of the Tennessee, with 
his base at Chattanooga and his plans being perfected for aggress- 
ive movement, with his line of communication held securely in his 
own hands, and his operations among his own friends, found himself 
enmeshed in a series of strategical movements upon his right, upon 
his left and upon liis center, that resulted in landing him upon the 
south side of the Tennessee Eiver, hanging on by a tenacious but 
uncertain grip upon the mountains of Georgia. No army ever 
marched and fought in a more unpropitious condition of weather 
and roads than this army, and no army ever encountered greater 
obstacles piled in its pathway by nature than we did, and yet, as I 
have said, the middle of July found Bragg holding on by the 
willows, as it were, on the other side of the Tennessee. It was a 
brilliant campaign, grandly planned and successfully executed. 

Of Chickamauga little can be said that is not a matter of public 
history. Bragg^ finding himself maneuvered out of Tennessee,' 
came back re-enforced by the splendid column of Longstreet^ 
and assayed to revenge his disappointments and recover his lost 
ground. It was unfortunate, doubtless, that Eoseckaxs^ army was 
divided and its constituent parts extended so widely, l)ut the change 
of purpose on the part of Bragg undid to some extent the plans and 
purposes of Eosecrans, and made it necessary for the latter to move 
4 



45 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

his great army by the left flank in order to consolidate it into one 
body and present an inibroken front to the aggressive purposes of 
Beagg. That movement was done with a skill and power of mob- 
ilization never exhibited by Napoleon or Julius Caesar, and it has 
long ago become a settled fact that rapidity of movement from point 
to point is the great assurance of military success. McCook, from 
his position on the extreme right many miles away from the 
center, was suddenly brought to the center and the center had been 
changed from Davis Cross Roads to Crawfish Springs. Of the 
battle I will not speak except to say that it was one of the bloodiest 
battles of modern times. Nearly twenty-five thousand men were 
killed and wounded, and the result was an advantage of position to 
the army of Rosecrans, for when it was all over and we were safely 
behind our suddenly improvised works at Chattanooga, Rosecrans' 
army was in a safe position, early preparing for an aggressive 
movement, while Bragg's army become powerless from that mo- 
ment for ever assuming a successful movement again. The 
student of great battlefields and great battle operations will 
not fail to recognize the disparity of the position occupied 
by Rosecrans on the 18th of September and that occupied 
by Bragg. Rosecrans on the north side of Chickamauga River 
was concentrating Ms army to meet the apparent change of 
purpose of Bragg, and was moving a great army by the left flank. 
He was suddently confronted by the perpendicular columns of 
Bragg's forces crossing the Chickamauga at three different jjoints 
and suddenly striking him. So far as Bragg's army was concerned, 
I mean his original army, we would have had no trouble, for we would 
have gathered at Crawfish and Lee and Gordon Mills and success- 
fully defeated his movement, Init there came like a scourge upon a 
battlefield a great bod}- of tried soldiere from the Army of North 
Virginia under the command of the intrepid Longstreet, who sits 
here upon this platform. He says in his report that he made 
twenty-five distinct assaults upon Snodgrass Hill. It seems to 



Burial of General Rosecrans. Jf.9 

me that he only made one, and that began somewhere in the neighbor- 
hood of from twelve to one o'clock and lasted until dark. It was 
the flower of the great Army of North Virginia. It was handled 
by officers of long experience and great efficiency and it came like a 
thunder bolt. It struck the battlefield at the river, coming from 
iJalton, and it crossed the battlefield, assailing at every point our 
lines, imtil its right was at Dry Valley Eoad, and wherever Union 
forces were found it struck wifh the mailed hand of a trained soldier, 
and it is due to history to say that the greatest achievement of that 
day on the Union side was the response to such a force as Long- 
street brought and sujjcradded to the army of Bragg and cast with 
such Avonderful power against our columns. 

I do not forget the intrepidity of the men who commanded 
our corps. I do not forget the magnificent old "Rock of Chick- 
amauga,"' George H. Thomas, who stood amid the billows of ap- 
parent defeat and made it possible to extricate that army and bring 
it into Chattanooga in apparent good order. I do not forget any of 
these circumstances, but I give to Eosecrans, notwithstanding 
any criticism that may have been made of him. high commendation 
for the work he did. 

He is dead. It was well and timely that his comrades brought 
his remains and deposited them in this grand place. It was well 
that he should occupy the position of highest honor in the burying 
ground of the great men who fought in the war. It is meet and 
proper that in this Parthenon of American glory Rosecrans should 
occupy a niche. He will not be forgotten. As the- music of the 
seasons chants above his resting place, as the foliage of spring gives 
place to the seared and yellow leaf of autumn, as the birds sing in 
the morning light, there will come to this resting place of the hero 
thousands and tens of thousands who will in their hearts do honor 
and bestow gratefiil remembrance upon William S. Rosecrans, 
the gifted soldier, the trained and splendid citi/en, the true patriot, 
the heroic dead. 



50 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

Honorable Washington Gardner, of Micliigan, a pri- 
vate soldier under General Kosecrans, a member of the 
House Committee, was the last speaker. He represented the 
Rank and File of the Army of the Cumberland. Following is 
his address: 

An army like that of the Civil War period, made up as that 
one was, almost wholly of volunteers, is but the incarnation of the 
national spirit of patriotism and the visible manifestation of the 
national determination as set forth by the President and the 
Congress. In actual war the common soldier soon learns that the 
distinguishing features between him and the officers over him are 
of degree and not of kind. He finds, for example, that the differ- 
ence between his uniform and that of his Captain, or Colonel, or 
General, is chiefly in the texture and the tailor, and not in the 
essential color ; in the quantity, and not in the quality of the rations 
issued; in the number, and not in the intrinsic value of the dollars 
in which payment is made; in the measure of responsibility which 
each assumes, and not in the purpose for which it is exercised. The 
soldier gradually awakens to the fact that his interests and those of 
the officers are one and the same, and that all are mutually de- 
pendent. 

EosECRANs' conduct and bearing toward the rank and file of 
his army was such that he gained and held their respect, their good 
will and their confidence. He was constantly solicitous for the 
material comfort and welfare of his mea. He believed that soldiers 
well fed and well clothed were better fitted to endure and to fight 
than the ill clad and poorly fed. His men knew and appreciated 
their general's care for them and when, as during the siege of Chat- 
tanooga, they were reduced to scant rations, there was no murmur 
of complaint. It is due to Eosecrans to say that they were his well 
matured plans carried out immediately after he was relieved of the 
command at Chattanoosra that resulted in breakino: the force of the 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 51 

siege by replenishing the commissary stores of the well-nigh starving 
garrison. 

General Roseckans possessed that quality of personal courage 
which always commands the admiration of the common soldier. 
Those who saw his splendid bearing nnder fire on the extreme left at 
Stone's River in the early morning of December 31st, or near the im- 
periled center a few hours later, when blood from the severed head 
of Garache bespattered his clothing, or when in the deepening 
twilight of the same day he rode his lines in close proximity to the 
enemy, or on that ill-starred Sunday at Chickamauga, when in the 
earlier part of the day he stood unmoved before the storm of lead 
and iron which rained with relentless fury upon him and his army, 
felt that here was a soldier true to the loftiest ideals of battle 
heroism. If any criticism is due from this standpoint of view, it is 
that, as commander of an army, he took too many risks upon his life. 
But Rosecrans was more than a provident care-taker of his men, 
and more than a soldier of unquestioned physical courage. As a 
general he brought things to pass. He had the ability to i^lan and 
to successfully execute campaigns. 

When in the midst of current controversy, born of the rivalries, 
jealousies and misunderstandings, in a measure inseparable from 
attending conditions, have cleared away, and the steady light of 
impartial investigation and analytical examination is turned upon 
the great campaigns of the Civil War and men come to know better 
the obstacles met and overcome, as well as the results accomplished, 
William Starke Rosecrans will then take his rightful place 
as one of the greatest in the secondary group of military chief- 
tains who made possible the final and complete triumph of the 
Federal arms. 

The strategy displayed in the campaign from Murfreesboro 
to Chickamauga Creek, in which Rosecrans successively and suc- 
cessfully maneuvered his adversary out of the fortified strongholds 
about Tullahom^, across the Cumberland Mountains, over the Ten- 



5S Burial of General Rosecratis. 

nessee EiA'er, and out of Chattanooga, without a serious engagement, 
with the loss of very few men and no equipment, will challenge com- 
parsion with any other like operation on either side during that 
gigantic struggle which called into requisition the best military 
talent of the Civil War generation. 

EosECRANS never fought a losing battle, unless Chickamauga 
be so regarded. On that sanguinary field the contest was waged for 
Chattanooga as the stake. It is true the field was lost, but the town 
was held, and no ilag but the Stars and Stripes ever floated above it 
from the day the Union army under Eosecrans entered. Tliere 
never was a time from that day, in June. 18G3, when the Arntij of the 
Cumberland broke camp at Murfreesboro in Middle Tennessee to the 
set of sun on September 20th, succeeding, in ISTorthern Georgia, that 
it would not have been willing to give Chickamauga for the perma- 
nent possession of Chattanooga, which became the impregnable 
fortress protecting the new base of supplies and the mountain gate- 
way through which the armies of Sherman and Thomas moved to 
Atlanta and that of the former from Atlanta to the sea. The his- 
torian of the future will give Eosecrans more credit than he has yet 
received for the brilliant coneejjtion and masterful execution of the 
campaign which resulted in the capture and permanent possession of 
Chattanooga, ''the heart of the Confederacy." 

The nameless survivors of that mighty host, the men of the rank 
and file, whom he marshaled in battle array, whether in West Vir- 
ginia or JSTorthern Mississippi, in Central Tennessee or Northern 
. Georgia, cherish his memory as that of the loved and trusted com- 
mander at whose summons they were ready to do, to sufl:er and to 
die, if need be, to consummate the most glorious civic and moral 
triumph of the 19th century, the preservation of the American 
Union by which government of the people Was conserved, and the lib- 
eration of a race of immortal God created, God endowed beings from 
bondage, that theXation might enter upon a new and nobler destiny. 



Ilurial of General Rosecrans. 



At the close of the last address the funeral party re- 
entered the carriages, and with the cavalry and artillery 
escort proceeded to the burial lot. This is in the new 
southern addition to the cemetery, and is destined to be one 
of its most beautiful sections. The lot assigned through the 
interest of General Ludington, the Quartermaster-General, 
is a large one, and is in a commanding place. It overlooks 
the whole of Washington and the Potomac for miles. 

The arrangements at the grave were perfect, owing to 
the attention and deep interest of Colonel A. B. Drum, the 
Superintendent. He had erected a canvas covering for those 
in attendance. Reverend Dr. Stafford read the impressive 
commitment service. The Quartette Choir rendered '■''Nearer, 
My God, to Thee." The bugle sounded taps. 

The Nation, through its representatives in all its depart- 
ments, and the veterans of all its armies, had laid its great 
soldier and our beloved commander, in his final resting place. 

The remains of General Rosecrans were brought from 
Los Angeles, California, without expense to the Society by 
Senator Chauncey Depew, avIio is a relative of the family. 
The General's only son, Carl F. Rosecrans, accompanied the 
casket. 

Upon the arrival of the remains they were taken in 
charge by Mr. W. R. Speare, and cared for without charge. 
His services throughout were of the most painstaking and 
successful character,, and his bill included only his actual out- 
lay for carriages. 

Governor and Mrs. Toole, and their children, and Miss 
Anita D. Rosecrans came on from Helena, Montana, to attend 
the ceremonies. Mrs. Toole is the General's eldest daughter. 



5Jf Burial of General Rosecrans. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Executive Office. 

Helena, Montana, May '21 , 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Wasliington. D. C. 
My Dear Geneeal : 

I write these few lines at tlie request of my family in the hope 
of conveying to you and to the Society of the Army of the Cumber- 
land, some idea, at leasts of the profound appreciation we feel for the 
noble and generous tribute to our father. 

We realize how feeble words are to portray such emotions as fill 
our hearts^ but we want you to know, if only from our assurances, 
that we are deeply grateful for everything that was done to prepare 
for the occasion. It was a memorable day for each one of us, and 
also for those who witnessed the ceremonies. 

Nothing was left undone that might add to their harmony and 
beauty, and it must have, certainly, been very gratifying to you to 
see how perfectly all details were carried into execution. 

We hope you will accept tliis simple expression from the fullness 
of our hearts of our gratitude and admiration for this superb proof of 
friendship for one who ever held you in loving memory. To bury 
the dead is a noble work, but when in doing so the wish of an old 
friend and comrade is carried out, what could be more gratifying ? 

During the years of his life, it was my privilege to hear my 
father speak of things nearest his heart, and I can assure you that he 
never mentioned your name, or that of the Society of the Army of 
the Cumberland, without quick tears flooding his eyes. 

He felt the separation from you all in his far ofi: home, and 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 55 

although he Avas happily surroimded by his family, his spirit often 
5'earned for the old friends and the days so full of memory to you and 
to his comrades in the Society. 

Hoping that some day, and in some way, we may give you proof 
of our gratitude, , 

Believe me, 

Yours respectfully, 

Anita D. Eosecrans. 



Los Angeles, Cal., June 1, 1902. 
General H. Y. Boynton, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Washington, D. C. 
My Dear General : 

I will ask 3^our kindness in expressing to all the dear members 
of the Society our deep gratitude for the grand tribute paid by his 
beloved comrades to our loved and honored dead — our father and 
friend, General William Starke Eosecrans, commander of 
that gallant band of national defenders, the grand Army of the Ciim- 
herland. 

Xoble deeds well done live with, and after, those who performed 
them, and as long as life shall last the family of General Eose- 
crans will hold in tender regard their touching devotion to their 
dead commander, who in his life loved them in every beat of his great, 
noble heart. 

Words are but weak and poor expressions of the heart, but, my 
dear General, you know how deeply we appreciate your beautiful 
devotion to our dear one in Arlington — you, true and noble com- 
rades, who followed him unto the end ! 

May God bless you one and all, prolong your noble lives of sac- 
rifice and fraternal love, and when life is over bring you to Him who 
is the "Eesurrection and the Life." 

I am. Yours, sincerly, 

Carl F. Eosecrans. 



56 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

War Department, 
Quartermaster General's Office, 

Washington, April 23, 1902. 
Mr. H. y, BoYNTON, Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Washington, D. C. 

Sir: In compliance with yonr reqnest of the 2 2d instant that 
burial lots numbered 1858, 1859, 1862 and 1863, in the Southern Di- 
vision, Officer's Section, in Arlington, Va., National Cemetery, be 
assigned for re-interment of the remains of the late Major-General 
William S. Eosecrans, U. S. A., and for the erection of a monu- 
ment thereon ; you are resjiectfully informed that the lots alwve noted 
have been assigned and will be noted on the records of the cemetery 
and of this office. 

These burial lots are not designed for general family use, but 
there is no objection to the interment therein of the wife of the officer, 
if so desired. 

Eespectfully, 

M. I. LUDINGTON, 

Quartermaster 'General, U. S. Army. 



Depot Quartermaster's Office, 

Washington, D. C, A^ml SO, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cuuiherland, Washingtou . I). C. 
Dear General : 

Eeplying to your favor of this date, requesting that the Society 
have the use of the pavilion at Arlington for the ceremonies attend- 
ing the funeral of General Eosecrans, which I understand are to 
be held on the 17th proximo, I have to say that it will give me very 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 57 

great pleasure to have the pavilion prepared for your use, as re- 
quested. 

Very truly yours, 

T. E. True, 
Major and Quartermaster, U. S. Army, 

Depot Quartermaster. 



May 22, 1902. 
My Dear Major : 

I wish to express to you, not only for myself personally, hut for 
the family of General Eosecrans and the Society of the Army of 
the Cumberland, our earnest and most sincere thanks for the atten- 
tion which you bestowed upon the preparations for the ceremonies 
at Arlington. I have never knoT\Ti arrangements so perfect as those 
completed under your direction, and everybody concerned feels imder 
the deepest obligations to you and your associates. 
Cordially yours, 

H. V. BoYNTON", Corresponding Secretary, 
Major T. E. True, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. 



May 22, 1902. 
Colonel : 

I desire to express to you in most emphatic terms the thanks 
which we all feel for the perfect arrangements supervised by you 
in the organization and movement of the escort, and for the measures 
taken by you for the preservation of order throughout the ceremonies 
at Arlington on Satur<iay last. The family of General Eosecrans 
and the veterans of the Army of the Cumberland very highly appre- 
ciate your attention which resulted in the most perfect arrangements 
I have known connected with any great occasion at Arlington. 
With great respect, very truly yours, 

H. V. BoYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. 
Lieut.-Col. Eugene D. Dimmick, U. S. A., 

Fort Myer, Virginia. 



68 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

Fort Mtek, Virginia, Mmj 23, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Camherland, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 22d 

inst., and extend thanks for myself and the officers of my command 

for your appreciation of our services at the ceremonies attending 

the burial of the remains of General Eosecrans on the 24th inst. 

Very respectfully yours, 

E. D. DiMMICK, 

Lieut. -Colonel 2d Cavalry, Commanding. 



May 22, 1902. 
My Dear Colonel: 

In all my experience in Washington, I have never known more 
perfect arrangements on any great occasion at Arlington than those 
perfected under your direction for our ceremonies on Saturday last. 
The members of the family of General Rosecrans desired me to 
thank you in their name most cordially for your attention, and I 
desire to express to you for myself and for the Society of the Army 
of the Cumberland the same earnest thanks. 
Cordially yours, 

H. V. BOYNTON, 

Corresponding Secretary, 
Colonel A. B. Drum, 

Arlington Cemetery, Fort 2Iyer Virginia. 



Headquarters of the Army. 

Washington, May 13, 1902. 
My Dear General Boynton : 

I regret very much that, owing to my necessary and prearranged 
absence in Cincinnati on the date of the ceremonies of the burial 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 59 

of the remains of Major-General "William S. Rosecrans, I shall 
be unable to serve as an honorary pall-bearer on that occasion. 

I should be honored to be present in company with members 
of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and appreciate the 
kind expression of the family of General Eosecrans in desiring 
to have me serve. 

Yours very truly, 

Nelson A. Miles, 

Lieutenant-General. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 

Washington, D. C. 



Hotel Gordon. 

Washington, D. C, May 14, 1902. . 
Dear General Boynton : 

I shall esteem it a high privilege to be present at the ceremonies 
attending the burial of the remains of General Eosecrans, under 
the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and to 
serve as an honorary pall-bearer, in compliance with the wish of the 
General's family. 

Yours very truly, 

J. M. SCHOFIELD. 

To General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 



No. 1773 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W. 

Washington, May IJ^, 1902. 
My Dear General Boynton : 

I feel more than honored at my selection as pall-bearer at the 

burial of my old friend, Major-General Eosecrans, on May 17th,. 

and will be at the Arlington at 9 :20 a. m. on that day to pay 



60 Burial of General "Rosecrans. 

my last tribute of respect to the earthly remains of that noble and 
eminent soldier. I assume that I will be expected to appear in uni- 
form, and will do so unless I hear to the contrary. 
Very sincerely yours, 

John M. Wilson, 

Brigadier-General U. S. A., Retired. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

War Department, Washington, D. C. 



1721 Ehode Island Avenue. 

May 13, 1902. 
My Dear General: 

I am in receipt of your note of this afternoon, requesting me 
to act as an honorary pall-bearer next Saturday. 

I appreciate the honor conferred by the invitation, and accept 
with a high appreciation of the worth and personal distinction of 
the late General Eosecrans. 

Very faithfully, 

G. L. Gillespie. 



1221 N Street, N. W. 

Washington, D. C, May IJf, 1902. 
General : 

I accejit the honor, to serve as pall-bearer at the burial of the 
remains of the distinguished soldier and eminent citizen, Major- 
General Eosecrans. May 17th, 11 a. m. 

I shall be at the Arlington Hotel at 9:30 on the morning of 
May 17th. 

With high regard. 

Very truly yours, 

Thomas M. Vincent. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 67 



Washington, D. C. May IJt, 1902. 
Sir: I have the honor to respond, in reply to your invitation of 
the 13th instant, to serve as an honorary pall-hearer at the funeral 
services of our distinguished comrade, General Rosecrans^ that 
I will be present to join with you and others in tribute to his im- 
perishable memory. 

Very respectfully, 

GrREEN Clay Goodloe. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary. 



Washington, D. C, May 10, 1902. 
Dear General Boynton : 

I vrill attend at Arlington on the occasion of the re-interment 
of the remains of General Rosecrans on the 17th inst. 

Yours, 

John M. Harlan. 



Department of State. 

Washington, May 14, 1902. 
My Dear General : 

I have received your letter of yesterday's date, and wish I could 
accept, but my engagements are such that it is a matter of great 
doubt whether I will be able to get away on Saturday morning. 
Please do not count on me, and do not provide transportation. If 
I can get away I will come in my own carriage. 

Yours sincerely, 

John Hay. 
General H. V. Boynton. 



62 Burial of GeneraTBosecrans. 



Treasury Department. 

WashingtOjS-, May ll^, 1902. 
My Dear Sir : 

I want to thank you for 3'our invitation of May 13th, to par- 
ticipate in the ceremonies attending the interment of the remains 
of General Eosecrans. 

It will not be necessary to detail a carriage for me, as I shall 
drive over in my own if I can secure the time necessary. 

Very truly yours, 

L. M. Shaw. 
General H. V. Boynton^ 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 

Washington, D. C. 



Department of Justice, 

Office of the Attorney General, 

Washington, D. C, May llf, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton^ 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 

Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir : 

The Attorney General directs me to express his regrets, that 
expected absence from the city, Saturday, j\Iay the seventeenth, will 
prevent acceptance of the invitation of the Society of the Army of 
the Cumberland, to be present at the ceremonies attending the inter- 
ment of the remains of General Eosecrans at Arlington Ceme- 
tery. 

C. C. Long, 

Brivate Secretary. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



Office of the Postmaster General. 

Washington, May IJ/., 1902. 
My Dear Sir : 

In the absence of the Postmaster General I beg to acknowledge 
receipt of your favor to him of the 13th instant, concerning the 
ceremonies attending the interment of the remains of Major-Gen- 
eral EosECRANS. Mr. Payne is at present in New York City, biit 
is expected to return to Washington on Friday morning when his 
attention will be immediately called to your letter and sugges- 
tions. 

Very truly yours, 

F. H. Whitney, 

Private Secretary. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 

Washington, D. C. 



Secretary's Office^ 

Department of the Interior. 

Washington, D. C, May 16, 1902. 
Dear Sir: 

Secretary Hitchcock directs me to acknowledge the receipt 
of your letter of the 13th, inviting him to be present on the occasion 
of the ceremonies attending the interment of the remains of Gen- 
eral EosECRANS at Arlington Cemetery on Saturday, May 17th, 
and to express his regret that he will be unable to accept the same. 

The delay in not earlier responding to your invitation has 
been occasioned by an effort on the Secretary's part to arrange, il 
possible, for a postponement of the engagements made for Sat- 
urday, so as to enable him to attend the ceremonies. This, how- 



6Jf Burial of General Rosecratis. 

ever, he has been unable to do, and is therefore obliged, much to his 
regret, to indicate that he can not be jDresent to-morrow, as he had 
hoped. 

Yer}' truly yours, 

W. Scott Smith, 

Private Secretary. 
General H. V. Boykton, 

Corresp o n ding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 

City. 



Department of' Agriculture, 
Office of the Secretary. 

Washington, D. C, May U, 1902. 
My Dear General Boynton : 

Your very kind invitation to attend the funeral ceremonies 
of General Rosecrans is received. I will go, unless something 
intervenes to prevent, but 3^ou need not detail a carriage for me, 
as I can take my own if it is possible for me to go. 
Yery truly yours, 

James Wilson, 

Secretary. 
General H. Y. Boynton, 

]Y ashing ton, D. C. 



Kansas, Edgar County, Illinois, May 5, 1902. 
]\Iy Dear Comrade Boynton : 

Your notice of April 30th, in regard to the interment of the 
remains of the dead hero, Major-General William S. Rosecrans, 
at Arlington, to take place May IT, 1902, is at hand, and in reply 
will say that in all probability I will not be there. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 65 

Many and many a time since the war have I thought of this 
grand man. I loved him and always thought well of him. The 
last time I met him was in the U. S. Treasurer's office at Wash- 
ington, in the month of September, 1892. 

If I visit Washington in October, of this year, I shall make 
it a i^oint to visit the General's grave. 

Sincerly and truly, 

Wm. McAdams^ Sr. 



TifE First National Bank 
OF Cleveland. 

Cleveland, 0., May 5, 1902. 
General H. Y. Boynton. 

My Dear General : — I have notices of the burial at Arlington 
of General Eosecrans, and it is my intention to be present on 
the ITth inst. I will try to see as many as possible of our mem- 
bers and urge them to attend. 

Truly yours, 

James Barnett. 



Society of the 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. 

Pl-IILADELPHIA, Maij 3, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Washington, D. C. 

My Dear General :— I am in receipt of your circular of 30th 
ult., and will arrange to have a meeting of our iVssociation next 
week, and endeavor to have a delegation of our regiment to attend 
the ceremonies on the 17th; will advise you later as to 
number. 

Very truly yours, 

Chas. M. Betts. 



66 Burial of General Rosecrans. 



Pittsburgh, Pa,, May 2, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, ]Yashington, D. C. 

My Dear General :— Your note at hand. I will be with 
you on the 17th inst., unless some unforeseen and unexpected mat- 
ter should interfere. 

I am glad to know that our dear old comrade's hones shall 
find a resting place in Arlington. I have the honor to he, 

Very truly yours, 

Archibald Blakeley. 



National Headquarters Union Veteran Legion, 

Washington, D. C. 

I Washington, D. C, 3£ay 6, 1902. 

General H. V. Boynton, Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Washington, D. C. 
Sir : — In accordance with your request, I take pleasure in 
naming the following members of the Union Veteran Legion to 
act as a delegation on the occasion of the re-burial of General 
W. S. Eosecrans'' remains at Arlington on Saturday, May 17, 
1902 : . 

Adjuant-General Dennis O'Connor. 
Colonel H. L. Deam, Encamijment I^o. 69. 
Colonel J. G. Dountain, Encami^ment No. 23. 
Colonel Jesse M. Elmobe, Encampment No. 111. 

I regret exceedingly that I cannot attend the ceremonies; a 
prearranged itinerary to visit a number of Encampments through- 
out the country is the reason for my enforced absence. 

Very respectfully, 

J. Edwin Browne, 
National Commander Union Veteran Legion. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 67 

General H. V. Boynton^ 

Dear Sir: — I will be there on the 17th. 

Yours respectfully, 

T. J. Cannon. 



Department oe the Potomac 
Grand Army oe the Eepublic. 

Washington, D. C, May 2, 1902. 

General H. Y. Boynton, Corresponding Secretanj, 

Army of the Cumheiiand. 
General : — In response to your note of the 30th ult. addressed 
to Israel W. Stone and by him referred to these headquarters, 
I am directed by the Department Commander to advise you that 
he takes pleasure in granting your request for the use of seats at 
Arlington on the 17th inst., upon the terms suggested in your 
letter. It is suggested that Comrade A. W. Bogia of the War 
Department is accustomed to putting up and taking down the seats, 
and would doubtless accomplish the work with less expense and 
breakage than one who is not used to it. 

By command of B. F. Bingham, Department Commander. 
B. F. Chase, 

Assistant Adjutant General. 



Department of the Potomac 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

Washington, D. C, May 1, 1902. 
H. V. BoYNTON, Secretary, 

Army of Cumberland. 
Dear Sir : — Your favor of the 2d inst., inviting the Depart- 
ment Commander to appoint a delegation of four comrades to rep- 
resent this Department at the re-burial of General Eosecrans, 



68 Burial of General Hosecrans. 

on May 17th, has been received, and I am directed to advise you 
that the same has been assigned. The Department Commander 
and three members of his staff will attend. 

In the absence of definite instructions it is jDresumed that the 
carriage will be at the undertaker's establishment named, where 
our detail will assemble. 

Very respectfully, 

B. F. Chase, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 



Headquarters Department of Texas, 
Office of the Chief Quartermaster, 
San Antonio, Texas. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Dear General : — I was very glad to get your circular letter of 

April 30th, and am delighted to hear of the splendid arrangements 

• to honor the remains of dear old General Rosecrans. I will leave 

here on the 7th for Washington and certainly will remain over 

for the exercises. 

Hoping to see you soon, 

Sincerely your friend, 

Jno. L. Clem, 



Office of Louisville Anzeiger, 

Louisville, Ky,, May 12, 1902. 
General H, V, Boynton,- Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir and Companion: — Will be with you Saturday to 
attend the funeral of General Rosecrans. 

Your comrade, 

Henry S. Cohn. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 69 



Society or the 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. 

Philadelphia^ May 12, 1902. 
Comrade : — The following letter, to the officers of our Society, 
has been received from General H. V. Boynton, Correspond- 
ing Secretary of the Society of the Army of tlie Ciiinherland. 

Washington, B.C., May 2, 1902. 
The enclosed circular will inform you in regard to the pro- 
gram for the re-burial of General Rosecrans' remains at Arling- 
ton. Undoubtedly the members of General Rosecrans' family 
will esteem it a mark of very high respect if the Fifteenth. Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry, so long attached to his headquarters, should be 
represented at the funeral. I am sure that the presence of any 
of your members will give great satisfaction to those of our 
Society who may be present. 

Cordially yours, 

H. V. BoYNTON, Corresponding Secretary. 

The ceremonies will take place at Arlington Cemetery, Satur- 
day forenoon. May 17th. 

The funeral cortege will move from Speare's Undertaker's 
Chapel, 940 F Street. N. W., Washington, at 10 o'clock, A. M., on 
that day. Members attending will assemble at that place at 
9 :30 A. M. 

Such troops as are available in the City of Washington will 
form the escort of honor, and all military organizations and socie- 
ties in the District are invited to take part. 

It is earnestly desired that as many of our Regiment will 
attend as possible. Badges will be provided in Washington. 

A number of our members expect to take the 3 :50 - A. M. 
train on May ITth, Pennsylvania E. R., from Broad Street 
Station. Very truly yours, 

John F. Conaway, Secretary. 
Chas. M. Betts, President. 



70 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

Society of the 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalky, 

Philadelphia, May 12, 1902. 
General H. \. Boynton, Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cuinherland. 
Dear General: — Your kind letter of the 2d inst., adressed 
to our Treasurer, has heen handed to me. In answer, I would 
say, from the best information at present obtainable, it is probable 
that from forty to fifty of the survivors of the 15th Pennsylvania 
Cavalry will attend the ceremony of the burial of the remains of 
Ma.tor-General William S. Rosecrans at Arlington on May 
17th. A circular has been issued requesting our members to as- 
semble at 9-10 F Street, N. W., Washington, at 9 :30 o'clock A. M., 
on that day. I will be obliged to you for any further information 
or instructions you may be able to give. 
Very truly yours, 

John F. C!onaway, Secretary, 

15ih Penna. Vol. Cav. 



Philadelphia, Sept. 18, 1902. 
Colonel Chas. M. Betts. 

Dear Colonel : — The following is a list of those who attended 
.the Rosecrans" obsequies: — 

Colonel 0. M. Betts. Wm. H. Lush. 

Lieutenant C. S. Hinchman. Frank M. Crawford. 

Lieutenant John F. Conaway. Horatio N. Oliver. 

A. M. Sticknby. Ma.tor John Tweedale. 

Corporal S. D. Cozens. Major A. W. Wills. 

Geo. W. Bishop. W. H. Carpenter. 

Sergeant E. W. Anderson. John E. Creth. 

E. J. PoHL. Geo. W. Eckert. 

Daniel Scull. John O. Stokes. 

Sergeant J. W. Bowen. Corporal Geo. H. Hanson. 

Jos. C. Squires. W. M. Palmer. 

Yours truly, 

John F. Conaway. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 71 

Washington, D. C, April lJ,th, 1902. 
General : — Encampment No. 23, Union Veteran Legion, of 
which I have the honor to be Colonel, and of which the late General 
Rosecrans was a charter member, desires a part, with other patriotic 
bodies, in the reception and final interment of the remains of 
the General, which we understand is to take place next month. 
We desire to know whether we will be permitted such participa- 
tion, and if so, whether as a bod}^, or by a committee of our mem- 
bers. I have somehow received the impression that you have 
charge of the arrangements. If I am wrong, will you kindly put 
me in correspondence with some one who will give me the desired 
information. Very respectfully, 

J. G. DOUNTAIN. 



Headquarters Union Veterans" Union. 

Washington, D. C., May 5, 1902. 
Dear Sir : — I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanks, 
receipt, this morning, of your courteous invitation of the 2d inst., 
to ap23oint a delegation of four members of the Union Veterans' 
Union to represent the Order on the occasion of the burial of the 
remains of Major-General Eosecrans, at Arlington, on the ITth 
of this month, and to go with the funeral cortege in a carriage which 
you kindly provide. 

I accept the invitation gratefully, as I was a warm personal 
friend of General Eosecrans, received my first promotion from 
him, in AYest Virginia, and served on his staff in the Department 
of the Missouri, and have to say that I shall be present, with three 
representative members of the Order, at 940 F Street, N. W., at 
half past nine o'clock in the morning of the ITth inst. With 
great respect. 

Sincerely and faithfully yours, in F. C. and L., 
E. G. Dyrenforth, 

C ommander-in-Chief. 
General H. V. Boynton, Cor. Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 



12 Burial of General Bosecrans. 

1801 Wyoming Avenue. 

Washingtox, May IS, 1902. 
Dear General : — Thanking you for 3'our polite invitation 
to attend the exercises at the burial of my classmate, General 
EosECRANS, at Arlington, I will feel it my duty to attend at the place 
appointed — 940 F Street, Northwest, on the 17th inst. 
Very respectfully, 

N. J. T. Dana, 

Class of 18Jf2, ^Vest Point. 
General H. V. Boynton, Cor. Secretary. 



Washington, D. C, May 10, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

My Dear General: — I expect to be present on May 17th 
next, to pay the last official honors to our late Com^nianding 
General W. S. Eosecrans. 

Very sincerely yours, 

Green Clay Goodloe. 



The Chapin, 1415 Ciiapin St. 

Washington, D. C., May 8, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Cor. Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 
Dear General: — I expect to attend the ceremonies that will 
take place on the 17th inst. 

Respectfully. 

E. P. Ewers, 
Colonel U. S. A., Retired. 



Grand Rapids,, Mich., May 31, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Washington, D. C. 

My Dear General : — Please accept my thanks for The Evening 
Star giving account of the funeral obsequies of General William 
S. Rosecrans at Arlington. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 73 

I can never forget my service under him. and the high com- 
pliments paid me by giving me verbal orders of vital importance, 
instead of sending them through the regular channels. It was 
always a joy to receive his cordial greeting after the war 
was over. I may be counted among his admirers and sincere 
mourners. Yours very truly, 

Perrin Y. Fox. 



Columbus, 0., May 12, 1902. 
General H. Y. Boynton, 

\Yar Department, Washington, D. C. 

My Dear General: — Your circular of April 30th notifying 
me of the funeral of Major-General William S. Rosecrans, 
which is to held at Washington on the 17th, received. I am 
very sorry to say that it will be impossible for me to be present 
at that time, as I am getting my things in shape to go away for the 
summer. I just received a note from General Barnett in which 
he states that he is going to attend. I should like very much in- 
deed to be there, but, as I said before, it is impossible for me to 
get away at this time. 

The Governor notified me yesterday that the appropriation 
for the monument on Mission Ridge had been made, and said he 
would appoint me one of the commision, and wanted to know if I 
would accept. I told him I would be very glad to do so. When 
the commission is appointed and we get in shape, we will want to 
consult with you in regard to the matter. 

Yours truly, 

W. F. Goodspeed. 



Headquarters District of Columbia Militia. 

Washington, D. C, May 16, 1902. 
General H. Y. Boynton, 

Wyatt Building, Wasldngton D. C. 
General : — In response to your much appreciated invita- 
tion, permit me to say that I may be prevented from paying, by 



IJf. Burial of General Rosecrans. 

my presence, the last tribute of respect to the remains of General 
William S. Eosecrans, whom I knew so well and whom I held in 
the highest esteem. Arrangements have been made, however, for 
representation of the organization which I have the honor to com- 
mand. Three staff officers will report to-morrow morning at nine 
thirty o'clock. If by any effort I can succeed in breaking away 
from an important business engagement, you may be certain I 

will do so. 

Yours respectfully, 

Geo. H. Harries, 
Brigadier-General Commanding D. C. M. 



Speaker's Boom 
House of Eepresentatives. 

Washington, D. C, May 3, 1902. 
My Dear General : — I am in receipt of your note of May 
2d in regard to the ceremonies in connection with our old com- 
rade, Major-General W. S. Rosecrans, and shall be pleased to 
act in the capacity indicated by the association. 

Very sincerely yours, 
General H. V. Boynton, D. B. Henderson. 

}Yar Department, City. 



Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 
Commandery of tlie District of Columbia. 

Washington, May 13, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Cor. Secretary, etc., City. 
Dear General : — I have the honor to state that consequent 
on the considerate suggestion of the Society of the Army of the 
Cumberland, most courteously communicated by you on the 2d inst.. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 75 

that this Comniandery api^oint a Delegation of Companions to rep- 
resent it at the re-burial of the remains of Major-General 
William S. Eosecrans, at the Arlington National Cemetery, 
on the 17th Inst., the Comniandery has under authority con- 
ferred at a stated meeting lield on the 7th inst., appointed 

Brevet Ma.ior-Gexeral Absalom Baird, U. S. A., 

Brevet Brigadier-General Maxwell Z. Woodhull, U. S. V., 

CoLoxEL George A. Woodward, U. S. A.^ 

Captain Leverett M. Kelley, U. S. V., 

as such delegation. 

It is also my i^leasurable duty, pursiuint to instruction given 
at said stated meeting, to express the sincere thanks of the Com- 
mandery— with which the distinguished soldier was in affilia- 
tion at the time of his demise — to the Society of the Army of the 
Cumberland for the privilege accorded of being officially repre- 
sented on the occasion. 

Yours sincerely, 

^Y. p. HuxFORD^ Recorder. 



Washington, D. C. May 12, 1902. 
My Dear General : — Enclosed please find a few poetic lines 
to my old commander, General Eosecrans, that you may 
use somewhere, in the ceremonies of re-interment at Arlington. 

Yours sincerely, 

John A. Joyce. 
General H. V. Boynton, Washington, D. C. 

Rosecrans. 



With roll of drum and blare of trump 
Beneath the radiant sun, 
A hero's dust we give to-day 
To glorious Arlington. 

And as the ages roll along 
With all tlieir changing plans, 
A royal host will sing in song 
Tlie fame of Rosecrans. 



76 Burial of General Rosecrans. 



The hills of West Virginia 
And streams of Tennessee, 
Where Rosecrans battled bravely 
For the Flag that made us free, 

Will keep his name in glory 
Ad own the tides of time, 
Eepeat his loyal story 
Through every land and clime. 

And kneeling here in May time hours. 
We '11 bless the true and brave, 
And decorate with sweetest flowers 
The patriot's lonely grave. 
Mai/ 17, 1902. 



Washingtojj, Mat) 2, 1902. 
General Botnton. 

My Dear Sir: — If possible I will l)e present at the re-inter- 
ment ceremony at Arlington on the forenoon of the 17th inst. 
I thank you for the considerate remembrance. 
Yours very sincerely, 

H. A. Kelley. 



Departmeistt of the Interior. 

Washington, D. C, May 13, 1902. 
General H. Y. Boynton, 

Cor. Secretary, War Department. 
Dear Sir : — I have the pleasure to' receive the kind invita- 
tion to attend the ceremonies of the burial of the remains of my 
classmate and friend, the late General William S. Rosecrans, 
at Arlington, on the 17th day of May, and beg leave to assure you 
that it will be pleasing to me to attend at the time appointed. 
May I ask if ladies will be expected to be present during the 

ceremonies ? 

Yery respectfully, 

James Longstreet, Commissioner. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 77 

Burlington & Missouri Kiver Railroad in Nebraska. 

Omaha, Neb., Alay 3, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Washington, D. C, 

My Dear General: — I have your circular of the 30th ult., 
stating that ceremonies incident to the burial of tlie body of 
Major-General Rosecrans at Arlington will be held on Satur- 
day morning the 17th of May. 

I expect to go to Washington the coming week, and will 
probably be in that city on the 17th inst. 

As I now exjDcct to attend these ceremonies, 1 notify you in 
compliance with your suggestion. 

Truly yours, 

Charles F. Manderson. 



1369 IVANSAS Avenue. 

Washington, D. C, May 13, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton. 

Dear Sir : — I have the honor to acknowledge the receij^t of 
your letter of yesterday's date, enclosing a circular programme 
of the ceremonial observances contemplated, on the re-interment 
of the remains of General W. S. Rosecrans, at Arlington next 
Saturday, and kindly offering to provide a carriage for me, upon 
my signification of intention to be present at the exercises on 
that occasion. 

I beg leave to accept with thanks your generous invitation. 
I have no doubt that General Longstreet and General DanA, 
to whom you have extended similar invitations, who, as well as 
myself, were in the class of 18-13, with General Rosecrans at 
West Point, and who were personal friends of his, will be equally 
pleased as I, to accept the invitation. 



78 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

General Eosecrans died on the 10th of March, 1808. At 
the request of the Secretary of the Association of Graduates of 
the U. S. Military Academy, I wrote for the Necrological pro- 
ceedings of that year a sketch of General Eosecrans' services. 
It was supplemented, at my request, hy a sketch from the pen of 
General D. S. Stanley, who had served under Eosecrans. As 
I was not in the Army of the Cumberland, nor had I seen service 
in the West, I made up my article from the records. 

When General Eosecrans was Eegister of the Treasu.ry, I 
had the pleasure of frequent conversations M'ith him. 

He was very friendly, and I honor his memory. Please 
accept personally the assurance of my esteem. 

Truly yours, 

John S. McCal^iot. 



Boulder, Colo., 2Ioij 10, 1002. 

My Dear General :- — Forwarded from our Washington 
home by my wife, comes the notice of the re-interment of' the 
remains of my dear old General Eosecrans, to take place at 
Arlington. 

I cannot tell you how deeply I regret my absence just at this 
time. I honored, loved, trusted him — living, and should gladly 
participate in the ceremonies with which you, more fortunate, shall 
do reverence to his memory — dead. 

I take this occasion of fresh mourning to offer you my poor 
thanks for the noble battle you have so long, so bravely and so suc- 
cessfully waged to secure to the hero the justice he was denied 
when it would have been a glory to him, 1 am especially glad — 
and I am sure Jte was glad — that the task fell to you. It could not 
have Ijeen in al)ler or more loyal hands. 

In the name of the many old fellows, who, like me, shall l)e 



Burial of Gcnend Hosecruns. 7.9 

deprived of the opportunity to be present witli you, I tender to 
the General's fa^ne a soldier's reverence, and io you a soldier's 
gratitude. 

Faithfully yours, 

W. H. Xelson. 
General H. V. Boynton, War Department. 



CoLDWATER, Maij 12, 1902. 
My Dear Boynton : — It is with deep regret that I am com- 
pelled to advise you that I will not be able to attend the burial 
services of our dear, brave and gallant commander, General 
Eosecrans at Arlington on the 17th inst. I shall spend the time 
during the burial services on tliat day in recalling the many noble 
deeds of the great soldier we so much loved. 

Sincerely yours. 

John G. Parkhurst. 
General H. V. Boynton, Washington, I). C. 



United States Indian Industrial School. 

Carlisle, Pa., May 5, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, Wa.stiington, D. C. 

Dear General : — It is my intention to be present at the 
ceremonies over General Eosecrans' remains in Arliiigton on 
the llth inst. • Fraternally yours, 

E. H. Pratt, Lieut-Col. 



St. Augustine, Fla., May S, 1902. 
Dear General Boynton : — In reply to your circular of April 
30th, I write to inform you tliat I expect to be present at the cere- 



so Burial of General Bosecrans. 

monies attending the burial of the remains of General Eosecuans, 
at Arlington, May 17th. 

My address in Washington will 1)0 The Gordon, on and after 
May 9th. Yours sincerely. 

J. M. SCHOFIELD. 

GenefvAL H. V. BoYNTON, Cor. Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Washington, D. C. 



Society of the 

FiFTEEXTH PeXXSYLVAXIA YOLUXTEEIi CaVALRY. 

Philadelphia, May 10, 1902. 
General H. V. Boyxtox'. 

Dear Comrade: — Please accept thanks for the circular of 
the Army of the Cumberland. Our Society will hold a meeting 
to-day at which time arrangements will l)e made for a representa- 
tion at the services on the ITth. 'Vo further the object I will 
be thankful for 8 or 10 of the circulars if you can si)are 
them. 

Thanking you in advance, I am. 

T. H. Smith, Treasurer, 

170S Mt. Vernon St. 



Taylorville, Ivy., May ^, 1002. 
General H. V. Boyxtox, 

Cor. Secretary, Wasliingion, D. C. 

Dear General: — Circular letter of the 30th ult., received. 
If nothing happens to prevent, I will attend the ceremonies on 
the 17th inst. Yery respectfully, 

John Speed. 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 81 

United States Senate. 

Washington, D. C, May 5, 19U'Ji. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Wyatt Building, City. 
Dear General: — I have yours of the 2d inst.. relative to 
the EosECRANS ceremonies. I doubt if I shall be able to be present. 
If I speak I agree to be brief. 

Yours very truly, 

John C. Spooner. 



May 21, 1902. 
Dear General : — I enclose you receipt for both checks for 
General Eosecrans' funeral. I beg to thank you. I did not, as 
I told Mr. Wynne, expect anything, as it was a public function, 
but I receive thankfully; can easily make use of it. 

I shall long remember the beauty and solemnity of the 
scene. Faithfully yours, 

D. J. Stafford. 



Dear Sir : — The bearer. Mr. Lamprecht, is the leader of my 
quartette. I have had four hymns prepared; two for the pavilion 
and two at the grave. Will you kindly mention in your notices that 
the St. Patrick's Quartette will furnish the music. I have heard 
from the Eosecrans family that they are much pleased with your 
arrangements. 

Faithfully yours, 

D. J. Stafford. 



Marion, Indiana, May 15, 1902. 
General H. Y. Boynton, 

WasJiington, D. C. 
My Dear Gen khal:— Yours of May 13th to me at Wash- 
ington is at hand, and I regret very much indeed that 1 cannot 
be preseni and act as ])a]l-bearer at the burial of the remains of 



82 Burial of General ^Rosecratis. 

General Wm. S. Eosecbans at Arlington, on May 17th. I have 
engagements here that preclude the possibility of my attending. 
I am very sorry indeed this is so. 

Very truly yours, 

Geo. W. Steele. 



Soldi EES and Sailors 
Historical and Benevolent Society. 

Washington, D. C, 3Iay 2, 1902. 
Gl^nkral Henry V. Boynton, 

}yyatt Building, City. 
]\Iy Dear General : — I am in receipt of your communica- 
tion of the 30th of April, in regard to the occupancy of the pa- 
vilion at Arlington on the occasion of the burial of General 
Eoseceans, and have to advise you that I have this day placed the 
same in the hands of Comrade Benj. F. Bingham, now the De- 
partment Commander, with a favorable recommendation, and I 
have no douljt but what he will take favorable action and advise you 
of the same. With best wishes, I am 

Fraternally yours, 

Israel W. Stone, 

No. 17 Tivelfth St., S. E., 

Washington, D. C. 



Office of United States Attorney, 
Southern District of Alabama. 

Mobile, Ala., May 3, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton, 

Corresponding Secretary, 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 

Washington, D. G. 
My Dear General: — I have just received your circular of 
Ajjril 30th, informing me of the ceremonies that will take place 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



at the Arlington Cemetery, j\[ay ITtli, over the remains of the late 
Major-Genekal William S. Rosecraxs. 

I deeply regret my inability to be present. The U. S. District 
and Circuit Courts will then be in session, and my presence in 
Mobilje before said courts will be indispensable. I yield to no one 
in admiration of General Eosecrans, and, under other cir- 
cumstances, -would be glad to pay my humble tril)ute to his 
memory. 

Sincerely 3'our friend and comrade, 

M. D. WiCKERSHAM. 



459 P Street, N. W. 

Washington, D. C, May 6, 1902. 
General H. V. Boynton. 

Dear General : — Replying to your circular in reference to at- 
tendance at the funeral exercises of General Rosecrans, I assure 
3^ou it would afford me great pleasure to do so, and trust that 
the occasion will be such as to do honor to the memory of such a 
distinguished patriot. 

Very truly, etc., 

J. T. Woods. 



SJi- Burial of General Rosecrans. 



THE RELIEF OF ROSECRANS. 



It is fitting that a vohurie relating to the hiirial of 
General Rosecrans should include Avhatever is known of the 
inside history of his relief from connnand of the Army of 
the Ciunherland after the battle of Chickanianga, which brit- 
tle secured Chattanooga, the objective of the campaign. 

The publication of ^^ General J. D. Cox's Beminiscences 
of the Civil Wary'' with its numerous and severe criticisms 
of General Rospxrans, alone would make it necessary for 
his friends to see that these are not allowed to pass un- 
noticed. When General Garfield, the chief of staff, is 
quoted by General Cox as joining in the criticisms, and 
furnishing the strongest material for them, the case becomes 
one demanding attention. General Cox was maligning the 
dead, and, therefore, the saying ''speak nothing but good of 
the dead" cannot be quoted with either fairness or effect 
against those who noAV answer him. 

His chapter on Rosecrans' campaign for Chattanooga 
was widely circulated as a magazine article as an announce- 
ment of the book itself. Such general publicity of error and 
injustice should not go without correction, even if put forth 
with the sanction of distinguished names. 

General Cox gives General Garfield's version of his 
interview with Secretarv Stanton, whom he met at Louis- 
ville when on his way to Washington, as the bearer of Gen- 
eral Rosecrans' report, and under a request to present a 
full statement of the erroneous reports in circulation about 
the Chickamauga campaign and battle, and to represent the 
needs of the army. General Thomas had 1)idden him good- 



Burial uf General Rosecrans. 85 

bve with this appeal: ''Garfield, you know the injustice of 
all these attacks on Eosecrans. Make it your first husiness 
to set these matters right."' 

In Scrilmer''s Magaznte for September, 1!)00, and in Vol. 
II, page 8, of General Cox's V)ook, above mentioned, pub- 
lished later, the following a])])eared, being an extract from a 
cha])ter in the same vein on "The Chickamauga Crisis" — 
a chapter, l)y the way, full of serious errors: 

"The Secretary of War was consequently prepared to show 
such knowledge of tlie battle of Chickamauga and the events 
which followed it. tiiat it would he impossible for Garfield to 
avoid mention of incidents which bore unfavorably upon Rose- 
ciiANS. He niiglit liave been silent if ]Mk. Staxton had not 
known so well how to question him, but when he found how 
full the information of the Secretary was, his duty as a military 
subordinate coincided with his duty as a responsible member of 
Congress, and he discussed without reserve the battle and its 
results. Mr. Staxton also questioned General Steedman, 
who was on his Avay home, and wrote to his assistant in "Wash- 
ington, for the information of the President, that his interviews 
with these officers more than confirmed the worst that had 
reached him from other sources as to the conduct of Rosecrans^ 
and the strongest things he had heard of the credit due to 
Thomas. 

"Garfield came from Louisville to Cincinnati, where I was 
on duty at headquarters of my district, and found me, as may 
easily be believed, full of intensest interest in the campaign. I 
had been kept informed of all that directly affected Burnside, 
rny immediate chief, but my old acquaintance with Eosecrans 
and sincere personal regard for him made me desire much more 
comjilete information touching his campaign than was given 
the public. Garfield's own relations to it were hardly less in- 
teresting to me, and our intimacy was such tliat onr thoughts, at 



S6 Burial of General Rosecrans. 



that time, were common property. He spent a day with me 
and we talked far into the night, going over the chief points of 
the campaign and his interview with Mr. Stanton. His friend- 
ship for EosECKANS amounted to warm affection and very strong 
personal liking, yet I found he had reached the same judgment 
of his mental qualities and his capacity as a commander which 
I had formed at an earlier day. Eosecrans' perceptions were 
acute and often intuitively clear and alile. His fertility was great. 
He lacked poise, however, and the steadiness of will necessary 
to handle great affairs successfully. Then there was the fatal 
defect of the liahility to be swept away l)y excitement and to lose 
all efficient control of himself and of others in the very crisis, 
when complete self-possession is the essential quality of a great 
general. 

"We sat alone in my room, face to face, at midnight as 
Garfield described to me the scene on the 20th of September on 
the battle-field, when, through the gap in the line made \)y the 
withdrawal of Wood's division, the Confederates poured. He 
pictured the astonishment of all who witnessed it. the doubt as 
to the evidence of their own senses, the effort of Sheridan far- 
ther to the right to change front and strike the enemy in flank, 
the hesitation of the men. the wavering, and then the breaking 
of the right wing into a panic-stricken I'out, each num running 
for life to the Dry A-^alley road, tli inking only how lie might 
reach Cliattanooga before the enemy should overtake him ; offi- 
cers and men swept along in tliat most hopeless of mobs, a dis- 
organized army. He described the effort of Eosecrans and the 
staff to rally the fugitives and to bring tlie battery into action under 
a shower of flying l)ullets and crasliing shells. It failed, for 
men were as deaf to reason in their mad ])anic as would be a drove 
of stampeded cattle. What was needed ^\•as a fresh and well- 
organized division to cover the rout, to iiold back the enemy, 
and to give time for rallying the fugitives. But no such division 
was at hand, and the rush to the rear could not be stayed. The 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 87 

enemy was already between the headquarters group and 
Brannan's division, which Wood had joined, and these, throw- 
ing back the right flank, were presenting a new front toward 
the west, where Longstreet^ preventing his men from pur- 
suing too far, turned his energies to the effort to break the 
curved line of which Thomas at the Snodgrass house was the 
center. 

"The staff and orderlies gathered al)out Eosecrans and tried 
to make their way out of the press. With the conviction that 
nothing more could be done, mental and physical weakness seemed 
to overcome the General. He rode silently along, abstracted, as if 
he neither saw nor heard. Garfield went to him and suggested 
that he be allowed to try to make his way by Rossville to Thomas, 
the sound of whose battle seemed to indicate that he was not yet 
broken. Eosecrans assented listlessly and meelianieally. As Gar- 
field told it to me he leaned forward, bringing his excited face close 
to mine, and his hand came heavily down upon my knee, as, in 
whispered tones, he described the collapse of nerve and of will 
that had befallen his chief. The words burned tliemselves into 
my memory." 

General Rosecrans' version of his retiring from the 
field was published twenty-one years ago over his own sig- 
nature in the San Fvancisco Chronicle. Of the particular 
incident upon which General Cox,' quoting Garfield, bases 
liis attack, General Rosecrans said: 

"When Davis' two brigades, next to Sheiudan's division on 
the right, were lu'oken, and that division tlierel)y temporarily sep- 
arated from the rest of the army. General Garfield, my Chief 
of Staff, and Ma.jor Frank S. Bond, Senior Aid, accompanied 
me toward the rear of our center. When we reached a jjoint near 
the forks of tlie Dry Valk-y road, on which our riglit rested, and 
the Eossville road It'ading uj) to our left, I addressed Genekal Gar- 
field as follows : 



88 Burial of General Rosecreins. 

"By the sound of battle we hold our ground under Thomas. 
Sheridan has orders to halt on the first good position for hold- 
ing the enemy from advancing this way on the Dry Valley road 
yonder, and form with his own and Davis' Division and any frag- 
ments of Van Cleve^s who may come that way. 

"Post's Brigade has our commissary train over the ridge there. 
Orders must go to Mitchel to extend his Cavalry line obliquely 
across the ridge and connect Sheridan's right and thus cover the 
commissary train from the enemy. Orders must go to Post to take 
that train in to Chattanooga. 

"Orders must go to Spear's brigade, advancing from Chat- 
tanooga to halt at the rolling mill across Chattanooga Creek, to ])ut 
it in complete order and hold it until Post's brigade arrives, then 
to proceed towards Eossville. halting for orders at the forks of that 
road with the Dry Valley road. Orders must go to Wagner's bri- 
gade at Chattanooga to park tlie reserve artillery defensively, and 
see that the pontoon bridge and other means of crossing the rivei' 
are strongly guarded. 

"And lastl}', General Thomas must be communicated witli 
to know his situation, and to inform him of the dispositions which 
are thus to be made." 

General Garfield when asked if he could not deliver these 
orders urged that there were so many orders he thought the 
General commanding had better give them and send him to 
General Thomas^ seeing Sheridan by the way. from whence 
he would report the situation. 

General Rosecrans said : "They are indispensal)le precau- 
tions in the present condition of things, and one of us must give 
them, while the other must go to General Thom;as, and ascer- 
tain how the battle goes there." 

General Garfield replied : "I can go to General Thomas 
and report the situation to you much better than I can give 
those orders." 

General Eosecrans said: "Well, go, and tell Geneiial 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 89 

Thomas my precautions to hold the Dry Yalley road, and securf 
onr commissary stores and artillery, and to report the situation to 
me, and to use his discretion as to continuing the fight on the 
ground we occupy at the close of the afternoon, or retiring to a 
position in the rear near Eossville." 

He also directed General Garfield to report to him by tele- 
graph from Eossville. 

General Garfield had further urged as a reason for Gen- 
eral EosECRANS going to Chattanooga, that a new line should be 
selected in advance, in ease the army was obliged to fall back to 
that point, and this should be done by the Commanding 
General himself, and that the officer in supreme command 
should 1)6 on the ground to assign the various commands to their 
positions. 

The Commanding General approved of this view and proceeded 
to give those orders, and directed General Garfield to report to 
him by telegraph from Eossville. 

In 1870, Mr. Charles A. Dana, formerly Assistant Sec- 
retary of War under Mr. Stanton, printed a statement in 
the New YorJc Sun that General Rosecrans was removed 
from the command of the Army of ihe Cu)nherland, because 
of a letter from General Garfield to Secretary Chase 
severely criticising the General's personal conduct at Chicka- 
mauga. Thereupon General Rosecrans wrote General 
Garfield inquiring as to the truth of Mr. Dana's assertion. 
To this General Garfield replied as follows: 

House of Eepresentatives. 

Washington, D. C, Ja?t. 19, 1880. 
My Dear General: — Yours of the 20th December came just 
as I was leaving for Ohio, or it would have ))een answered 
sooner. 

T have tried for sonic time to o-et holrl of tlic article' in the 



00 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

Neiv Tori- Sun, to which you refer, and have not yet been able 
to do so. 

I have been told its substance by two or three persons who 
have seen it. I can only say, in absence of the article itself, that 
any charge, whether it conies from Dana or any other liar, to the 
effect that I was in any sense untrue to you or unfaithful to our 
friendship has no particle of truth in it. 

On my way from your army to Washington 1 met ^Ik. Stan- 
ton at Louisville, and when he denounced you in vigorous lan- 
guage, I rebuked him, and earnestly defended you against his 
assaults. I did the same, as you remember, in the House of Rep- 
resentatives, very soon after I entered that body. 

If you will send me Dana's article, or if I can find a copy of 
it. 1 will, if you think best, write and publish a reply. 

It is true, that I was an occasional correspondent of Secre- 
tary Chase. Several times, while I was your chief of staff, he 
wrote me in regard to the progress of the war and asked my 
opinions on various questions connected with it, but I fearlessly 
challenge all the rascals in the world to publish any such letters 
written by me. They are welcome to all the capital they can make 
out of them. With kindest regards, I am, as ever, your 
friend, 

J. A. Garfield. 
To General Eosecrans. 

Mr. Dana, thus contradicted, published the following- 
letter from General Garfield to Secretary Chase: 

(Confidential.) 

Headquarters Department of the Cumberland. 

Nashville, July 27, ISGS. 

My Dear Governor: — I have for a long time wanted to 

write to you, not only to acknowledge your lust kind letter, but 

also to say some things confidentially on the movements in this 

department; but I have refrained hitherto lest I do injustice to a 



Burial of Unirntl Rosrrnnis. 91 

good man and to say to you things wliich were better left un- 
said. We have now, however, reached a ])oint upon wliich 1 
feel it proper, and also due to that kind opinion which I believe 
you have had of me, to accjuaint yon with the condition of af- 
fairs here. 

I cannot conceal from you the fact that 1 have been greatly 
tried and dissatisfied witli the slow progress we have made in 
this department since the battle of Stone's Eiver. I will say in 
the outset that it would be in the highest degree unjust to say 
that the 163 days which elapsed between the battle of Stone's 
River and the next advance of this army were spent in idleness 
or trifling. During that period was performed the enormous and 
highly important labor which made the Arniij of the Cainherland 
what it is — in many respects by far the best the country has ever 
.known. But for many weeks prior to our late movement I could 
not but feel that there was not that live and earnest determination 
to fling the great weight of this army into the scale and make its 
power felt in crushing the shell of the rebellion. I have no words 
to tell you with how restive and unsatisfied a spirit I waited and 
plead for striking a sturdy blow. I could not justly say we were 
in any condition to advance till the early days of May. At that 
time the strings began to draw sharply upon the rebels, both on 
the Mississi23pi and in the East. They began to fear for the 
safety of Vicksburg, and before the middle of May they began 
quietly to draw away forces to aid Pembekton. I plead for an 
advance, but not till June did General Eosecrans begin 
seriously to meditate an immediate movement. The army had 
grown anxious, with the exception of its leading generals, who 
seemed blind to the advantages of the hour. In the first week of 
the month a council of war was called, and out of eighteen gen- 
erals whose opinions were asked, seventeen were opposed to an 
advance. 

I was the only one who urged upon the General tlie impera- 
tive necessity of striking a blow at once, while Bragg was 



92 Burial of General nosecrans. 

weaker and we stronger than ever before. I wrote a careful re- 
view of the opinions of the generals, and exhibited the fact, 
gathered from ample data, that we could throw 65.000 bayonets 
and sabers against Bragg's 41.000, allowing the most liberal 
estimates of his force. This paper was drawn up on the 8th of 
June. After its presentation and a full canvassing of the situa- 
tion an advance was agreed upon ; but it ^vas delayed through 
days, which seemed like months to me. till the 2-i:th. Avlien it was 
begun and ended with what results you know. The wisdom of 
the movement was not only vindicated, but the seventeen dis- 
senting generals were compelled to confess that if the move- 
ment had been made ten days earlier, wliile the weather wa? 
propitious, the army of Bragg would in all lunnan probability, 
no longer exist. I shall never cease to regret the sad delay 
Avhich lost us so great an opportunity to inflict a mortal blow 
upon the center of the reljellion. The work of expelling Bragg 
from Middle Tennessee occupied nine days, and ended July 3d, 
leaving his troops in a most disheartened and demoralized con- 
dition, while our army, with a loss of less than one thousand 
men, was in a few days fuller of potential fight than ever before. 

On the 18th inst.. the In-idges were rebuilt and the cars were 
in full communication from the C'uml)erland to the Tennessee. J 
have, since then, urged^ with all the earnestness I possess, a rapid 
advance while Bragg's army A\as shattered and under cover, and 
before Johnston and he could effect a junction. Thus far the 
General has been singularly disinclined to grasp the situation 
with a strong hand and make the advantage his own. I write 
this with more sorrow than I can tell you, for I love every bone 
in his body, and, next to my desire to see the rebellion blasted, is 
ni\ anxiety to see him blessed. But even the l^readth of my love 
is not sufficient to cover this almost fatal delay. My personal re- 
lations with General Eosecrans are all that I could desire. Of- 
ficially, I share his councils and responsibilities even more than 1 
desire, but I beg you to know that this delay is against my 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 



judgment and my every wish. Pleasant as are my relation? 
here I would rather command a battalion that would follow 
and follow and strike and strike than to hang back while such 
golden moments are passing. But the General and myself 
believe that I can do more service in my present place than 
in command of a division, though I am aware that it is a position 
that promises better in the way of promotion or popular 
credit. But if this inaction continues long I shall ask to be re- 
lieved and sent somewhere where I can be part of a working 
army. 

But I do hope that you Avill soon hear that this splendid 
army is at least trying to do its part in the great work. If the 
War Department has not always been just, it has certainly been 
very indulgent to this army. But I feel that the time has now 
come when it should allow no plea to keep this army back from 
the most vigorous activity. I do hope that no hopes of peace 
or submissive terms on the part of the rebels will lead the Gov- 
ernment to delay the draft and the vigorous prosecution of the 
war. Tiineo Danaos et dona ferentes. Let the Nation now dis- 
play the majesty of its power and the work will be speedily 
ended. I hope you will pardon this lengthy letter, but I M'anted 
3'ou to know how the case standS;, and was unwilling to have 
you think me satisfied with the delays here. With kindest 
regards, I am as ever your friend, 

J. A. Garfield. 

Hon. S. p. Chase. 

In a letter to General Roseckaxs, dated ]\Iurfreeshoro, 
June 12, 1863, General Garfield, after reviewing the opin- 
ions of corps and division commanders on the question of an 
immediate advance, said: 

*"You have in my judgment wisely delayed a general move- 
ment, hitherto, till your army could l)e massed, ai/d your cav- 
alrv could be mounted. Your mobile force can now l)e concen- 



VJf. Burial of General Vosecrans. 

trated in twenty-four honrs, and your cavalry, if not equal in 
numerical strength to that of the enemy, is greatly superior in 
efficiency and morale. For these reasons I believe an immedi- 
ate advance of all our available forces is advisable, and, nnder 
the providence of God, will be successful." 

Ten davs from the date of this letter orders were issued 
for the army to move, and in nine days Bracks had l)een 
flanked out of the fortiiied positions and driven over the moun- 
tains and beyond the Tennessee, with a Union loss of only 
570 killed and wounded. Rosecrans had simply waited till 
he was ready to strike a telling blow. 

On the 21st of October, two days after (Ieneral Rose- 
crans' removal, Secretary Stanton telegraphed from Louis- 
ville to Honorable P. H. Watson, Assistant Secretary of 
War, in Washington: 

^'Generals Garfield and Steedman are here on their way 
home. Their representations of the incidents of the battle of 
Chickamauga more than confirm the worst that has reached us 
from other sources as to the conduct of the Commanding General 
and the great credit that is due to' General Thomas.^' 

In March, 1882, Mr. Dana, writing of the removal of 
Rosecrans, thus referred in an editorial of the Sun to the 
letter of GeneRx\l Garfield of July 27th: 

"As we have repeatedly had occasion to aver, that event 
was brought about, not by this letter, but by another, or by 
others — written from Chattanooga in the month of October, 
1863, but addressed, as this one was, to Mr. Chase. The exist- 
ence of such a letter, or letters, and the fact that it was the con- 
tents thereof which finally determined President Lincoln to 
remove Eosecrans^ was stated, as we believe, by Mr. Lincoln to 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 95 

the Honorable Montgomery Blair in the month of Novem- 
ber or December, 1SG3, and, as we know, it was stated by Mr. 
Stanton to Mr. C. A. Dana in the month of December. Thus 
it was tliat Garfield, without revealing to Eosecrans that he 
was in any way clissatislied, or without informing him that he 
was communicating to members of the cabinet, actually gave 
points and facts calculated to bring about the removal and disgrace 
of the man who most entirely trusted him." 

From Colonel Francis Darb, formerly on General 
Rosecrans' staff: 

New York, June 16, ISSl. 
Dear General : — You have the original letter, Garfield to 
you, — dated House of Representatives, Washington, D. C, Janu- 
ary 19, 1880. In that letter he writes : 

"On my way from your army to Washington I met Mr. 
Stanton at Louisville, and Avhen he denounced you in vigorous 
language, I rebuked him and earnestly defended you against his 
assaults." 

I met General Anson Stager a few days ago at West Point 
— where he was on the board of visitors, and during a conversation 
about old times — old friends and war reminiscences — he made the 
following statement : 

"When Stanton contemplated that journey to Louisville, he 
desired me to procure and provide a special car, and I went out in 
his company — no one hardly in Washington knowing we had left 
that city. At an interview in Louisville between Garfield and 
Stanton — Andy Johnson and I were present — Garfield and 
I being now the only survivers — -Garfield in my presence de- 
nounced Eosecrans as incompetent — unworthy of his position 
— as having lost the confidence of his army and should be 
removed." 

Mr. Montgomery Blair, former Postmaster General 

7 



96 Burial of General*Eosecrans. 

under Mk. Li>;coln, under date of August 21, 1880, wrote 
General Kosecrans as follows: 

"My recollection is that I heard that the removal of Eose- 
CEAFS was contemplated on the charges freely made through the 
newspapers at the time, and I went to Lincoln to remonstrate 
against it, saying that I did not believe the charges implying 
misbehavior to Eosecrans, and that Lincoln silenced me by 
saying, that he did not propose to act on such rumors; but that 
the charges against Eosecrans had been substantiated by General 
Garfield, the Chief of Staff of General Eosecrans. My im- 
pression is also that General Garfield's statements were made 
to Lincoln in person, and not by letter, and that he came here 
(Washington) to make them after meeting Stanton at Louis- 
ville." 

Mr. Blah;, in answer to this paragraph : "General Gar- 
field's letters stated that General Eosecrans had fled from 
the field during the battle of Chickaniauga, and that the con- 
fidence of the army in him had been broken, if not destroyed/' 
says: 

"This was the purport of the statement on which Eosecrans, 
was removed — which was combated hy me and Chase — and which 
Lincoln told me had been verified by Garfield. 

"Garfield was one of a large dinner party given by my father, 
subsequent to the ^emo^■al of Eosecrans, at winch Governor 
Dennison and my brother General Blair were present. There 
may have been another member of the Cabinet present beside 
myself, but I do not recollect the fact. Dennison, I recollect, 
condemned strongly the removal of Eosecrans, and there was a 
general concurrence of all present in his views, and I recollect 
that Garfield especially was loud and pronounced in condemn- 
ing the act. I was of course very much astonished at his 
duplicit}'." 



Burial of General Rosecranfi. 97 

Honorable Chas. A. Daxa wrote General Rosecrans 
as follows: 

"The fact that it was Garfield's letter to Chase which 
finally broke the camel's back and made even Chase consent to 
Eosecrans' removal, I had from Mr. Stanton. All I know 
of Garfield's letter is what Mr. Stanton told me ; 1 never saw it — 
do not know where it is, and suppose it to have been destroyed 
by Mr. Chase^ to wlioni it was privately written. Of its con- 
tents I have never known anytliing, except as I have stated. 
But my impression has always been, that without suggesting or 
urging the removal of Eosecrans, the letter sliowed a state of facts 
at Chattanooga, which in the opinion of Mh. Lincoln and all 
the rest, including Mr. Chase^ the special support of Eose- 
CRANS^ made it desirable to have Grant there. In that way, as I 
suppose, Garfield brought about the removal of his chief. T 
know from Mk. Stanton, and I tliink from Mr. Chase too, that 
it was a private letter of Garfield's to Chase that determined 
the removal of Eoseckans. Of course it was never filed in the 
War Department." 

Mr. James II. Ctil:more, who was at Rosecrans' head- 
quarters throughout May, 1803, and who was present at the 
conference of corps and division commanders a short time 
previous to the movement on Tullahoma, dined with Secre- 
tary Chase on Cliristnias day, ISGo, and closed a long ac- 
count of the conversation about (General Rosecrans and the 
circumstances attending the removal, as follows: 

"At this point in our conversation. Mr. Chase asked what 
I thought of EosECRANs" personality. I answered that he was one 
of the ablest of organizers and executors. The old adage was that, 
'a workman was known by his chips.' Every one of Eosecrans' 
battles had been fought against superior forces, and been won solely 



9S Burial of General nose crans. 

by his personal bravery and efficiency. I was not a military critic, 
but a score of experienced military men — among them Quincy 
GiLMORE — liad told me that Eosecrans was the most tenacious 
fighter and the ablest strategist in our army. 

"Mr. Chase then remarked that I must have expressed 
these same opinions to Mr. Ltn'coln'^ for he had used very 
nearly the same language when Stanton proposed the removal 
of KosECRANS, merely adding that he was the only one of our 
Generals who had thus far shown the ability to cope with Lee^ 
and that his flanking of Bragg out of Shelbyville, Tullahoma 
and Chattanooga was the most splendid piece of strategy that he 
knew of. 

" 'Then,' I asked, Svhy did he consent to his removal ?' 

"Chase answered by inquiring if I had not asked that 
question of General Garfield. 

"1 replied that I had l)een witli Garfield the larger part of 
the previous day, and having in mind wliat he (Chase) had said 
to me of Eosecrans having lost his head at Chickamauga, I had 
questioned him particularly as to the bearing of the General during 
the battle, and he had answered : 

" 'You know there never was a commander so cool in battle 
as old Eosecrans. You've told me that you once asked him what 
his sensations were while he was for two days so constantly under 
fire at Stone's Eiver, and he answered you that he had no sensa- 
tions — that he was absorbed in planning how to beat them. Gar- 
field said that he was just as cool and collected at Chickamauga 
— expressed a little surprise, nothing more, when he saw McCook 
was broken; but at once prepared to meet the emergency by send- 
ing him, with orders, on to Thomas and going himself to Chat- 
tanooga to rally there our men and hold tlie place, for that was 
the objective of the campaign, and so long as we held it we could not 
be defeated.'" 

"When I asked Garfield why the government had removed 
Eosecrans, he said that he did not know; that the deed was 



Burial of General Bosecrans. 99 

done sometime before his arrival in Washington, and he found 
it would be a waste of words to attempt to stem the opposition 
against the General — that every one seemed to hold him respon- 
sible for the disaster to Mc Cook's corps, when he had no more 
to do with it than the Czar of Eussia and did all that he could 
to meet the emergency. 

"Mr. Chase seemed to hesitate for a moment, then said, 
'General Garfield has not been entirely frank with you. I 
will be, and tell you all that I know about Rosecrans' removal.' 
He then went on to say that I must know that there had been 
for a long time a mutual dissatisfaction between Stanton and 
Eosecrans; that in this his (Chase's) sympathies had been with 
the General, and he had done all he could to promote harmony 
between them. Finally, soon after Chickamauga, he received a 
letter from an officer high in rank under Eosecrans, and in whom 
he had great confidence, which said that after the breaking of 
our lines in the second day's battle, the General was demoralized, 
panic-stricken and totally unfitted to command; in fact, that 
nothing but the unmoval)le firmness of General Thomas had 
saved the army. Mr. Chase had carried this letter for several 
days before he concluded that he ought to show it to Mr. Lincoln. 
This he did in a private interview, and Mr. Lincoln expressed 
both surprise and incredulity, but said that things out there 
were in a critical condition, and we could not afford to take any 
chances. We had already ordered Sherman to the support of 
Eosecrans, but he thought we had better do even more — merge 
the departments of tlie Oliio. Cuml)erlan(l and Tennessee, each 
with its present commander ; but all three under Grant, who 
should proceed at once to Cliattanooga. This plan struck Mr. 
Chase favorably, and it was brought at once before a Cabinet 
meeting, to which, at Mn. Lincoln's request, Mr. Chase read 
the Chickamauga letter. At once Mr. Stanton suggested the 
nioval of Eosecrans and tlie sul)stitution of General Thomas 
in the command of the army at Chattanooga, and the entire 

L.ofC. 



100 Burial of General Koseeruns. 

Cabinet approved of the suggestion. To this Mr. Lincoln objected, 
sa^ying that he could not believe the statement of the letter, and 
that he Avas unwilling to do an injustice to Koseckaxs. He finally 
agreed that the superseding of Eosecraxs by Thomas should l^e 
left optional with General Ghant^ and it w^as so expressed in the 
dispatch of the War Department, which, inasmuch as it was borne 
to Grant lij Stanton himself, secured the removal of Kose- 

CRANS." 

Honorable Montgomery Blair was further responsible 
for the following statement concerning General Garfield's 
interview with President Lincoln: 

"General Garfield called on the Tresident and said he 
had come on to look over the ground with a view of deciding the 
question of accei)ting his election to the House of Eepresenta- 
tives. He said he was not inclined to leave the army; he had 
become thoroughly identified w-ith the Army ejf the Cuinherland, 
and believed that as a commander of troops he would be a 
success. Mr. Lincoln saw through that statement, and replied 
that the Administration wanted a soldier from the field who 
knew the w^ants of the armies from practical knowledge, and he 
hoped that the General would not hesitate about accepting his 
election; and as to commanding troops, they had more generals 
around loose than they knew what t(^ do with." 

It is also true that General Garfield, in the House 
of Representatives, February 17, 1S(.U, delivered a glowing 
and truthful eulogy on General Kosecrans, setting forth the 
brilliancy of liis various campaigns, and especially empha- 
sizing his distinguished ability in the campaign which secured 
Chattanooga. 

A resolution had been introduced thanking General 
Thomas and the officers and men under his command for 



Burial of General Rosecrans. 101 

Chickamaiiga, but niakinii- no mention of General Rosecrans: 
Therenpon General Garfield said: 

"This, resolution proposes to thank Major-Gexeral Thomas 
and the officers and men under his command for gaUant services 
in the battle of Ghickamauga. It meets my hearty approval 
for what it contains, but my protest for what it does not con- 
tain. I should be recreant to my own sense of justice did I 
allow this omission to pass without notice, ^o man here is 
ready to say — and if there be such a man, I am ready to meet 
him — that the thanks of this Congress are not due to Major- 
General W. S. Kosecrans, for the campaign which culminated 
in the battle of Ghickamauga. It is not uncommon through- 
out the press of the country, and among many people, to speak 
of that battle as a disaster to the Army of the United States, 
and to treat of it as a defeat. If that battle was a defeat we 
may welcome a hundred such defeats. I would be glad if each 
of our armies would repeat Ghickamauga. Twenty such 
would destroy the reliel army and the Gonfederacy, utterly and 
forever. 

"What was that battle, terminating as it did a great cam- 
paign, whose object it was to drive the rebel army beyond the 
Tennessee, and to obtain a foothold on the south bank of that 
river which should form the basis of future operations in the 
Gulf States? 

We had never yet crossed that river, except far below in the 
neighborhood of Gorinth. Ghattanooga was the gateway of the 
Cumberland Mountains, and until we crossed the river and held 
the gateway we could not commence operations in Georgia. 
The army was ordered to cross the river, to grasp and hold the 
key of the Cumberland Mountains. It did cross, in the face of 
superior numbers; and after two days of fighting, more terrible, 
I believe, than any since this war began, the Arniij of the Cum- 
berland, hurled back, discomfited and repulsed, the combined 



102 Burial of General Eosecrans. 

power of three rebel armies, gained the key to the Cumberland 
Mountains, gained Chattanooga and held it against every assault. 
If there has been a more substantial success against overwhelming 
odds since this war began. I have not heard of it. 

"We have had victories — God be thanked — all along the 
line, but in the history of this war I know of no such battle 
against such numbers; forty thousand against an army of not 
less by a man than seventy-five thousand. After the disaster to 
the right wing in the last bloody afternoon, of September 20th, 
twenty-five thousand men of the Army of the Gumherland stood 
and met seventy-five thousand hurled against them ; and they 
stood in their bloody tracks, immovable and victorious, when 
night threw its mantle around them. They had repelled the 
last assault of the rebel army. Who commanded the Army of the 
Cumberland? W^io organized, disciplined and led it? Wlio 
planned its campaigns? The General whose name is omitted in this 
resolution, Major-General W. S. Eosecrans." 




/ 




c* — ^ 



In Memoriam — General Stanley. 103 



^n ^txnoxuxnx. 



MAJOR-GENERAL DAVID S. STANLEY. 

It seems fitting that this vohime should contain memo- 
rials of the President of our Society, and of General Rob- 
inson of its Executive Committee, both of whom were 
•enthusiasticallv favoring the move for the re-burial of Gen- 
eral KosECRANS at Arlington. General Stanley, residing 
in Washington, wliere the preparations were in progress, was 
•especially desirous of living to take j)art in the last honors 
to be paid his chief. General Stanley died March 18, 1902, 
before the ceremonies at Arlington, and General Kobinson's 
failing health prevented his attendance. 

No members of the Society had a deeper interest in its 
welfare, or greater pride in the history of the Army of the 
Cumherland and the fame of its great leaders, or a higher 
appreciation of the soldiers who won its victories. 

The following memorial paper from Honorable White- 
law Retd's "Ohio in the TFar" reproduced with the permis- 
sion of The Robert Clarke Comtany, gives an excellent 
sketch of General Stanley's life : 

He was born in "Wayne County. Oliio. on the 1st of June, 
1828. His father was a farmer. In 1818 he was appointed a 
cadet at West Point; and in 1852 he graduated, with a standing 
•sufficiently higli to warrant his assignment as Second Lieutenant 
to the Second Dragoons, afterwards the Second Cavalry. The next 
year he was employed as assistant on the survey of the Pacific 
Eailroad route, under Lieutenant, since General, Whipple^ and 



iO^ Burial of General Eosecrans. 

in this service lie remained for two years. In 1855 he was 
transferred to the First C'avalrv, a new regiment, of which Sum- 
ner was Colonel. Jop: Johxstox, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Sedg- 
wick, Major. ]\1cClellax and Jiianv others who subsequently 
held imjjortant positions, were subordinate in this regiment. 
He was engaged in maintaining the peace in Kansas until the 
spring of 1857, and during the summer of that year he accom- 
panied Colonel Sumner on an expedition against the Cheyenne 
Indians. He was engaged in a sharp fight on Solomon's Fork 
of the Kansas, in which the Indians were defeated and com- 
pelled to beg for peace. In 1858 he was engaged in the Utah 
expedition, and in the same year he crossed the plains to the 
northern boundary of Texas. In March, 1858, he had a success- 
ful fight with the Comanche Indians, for which he received the 
complimentary orders of Lieutenant-General Scott. 

He was stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas, at the opening 
of the rebellion. He was ai)pointed Captain in the Fourth 
United States Cavalry in March, 18()1. and soon after that the 
troops at Fort Smith and neighboring posts were compelled to 
evacuate. They united in one column and marched through 
the buffalo country to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. On the 8th 
of May they captured and paroled a force of rebels sent in pur- 
suit of them. Kansas City was occupied June 15th, and on the 
same, day Captain Stanley was fired upon by rebels near Inde- 
pendence, Missouri, while carrying a flag of truce. He moved 
on the expedition to Springfield, and joined General Lyon at 
Grand Eiver. Springfield was occupied July 12th. He was en- 
gaged in the capture of Forsythe, in the defeat of the rebels at Dry 
Spring, and in guarding the train at the battle of Wilson's 
Creek. On the retreat to Eolla he was in cliarge of the rear 
guard. He participated in a skirmish, in which the rebels 
were defeated, near Salem, Missouri, and in September, com- 
manding his regiment, he joined General Fremont, at St. 
Louis. He marched in pursuit of Price, from Syracuse, and in 



In Meinorinni — General Stdiileij. 105 

November moved against Springfield. Captain Stanley was 
appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers in November, 1861. 
He was ordered to St. Louis, and during tbe winter of 1861-62 
was a meml^er of a military commission. He moved with PoPE^=l 
army down the Mississippi, March, 1863, and commanded the 
Second Division of that army at New Madrid, and Island No. 
10. He participated in the Fort Pillow expedition, and on the 22d 
of April joined General Halleck's army before Corinth. 
He was engaged in a skirmish at ]VIonterey. in the l^attle of Farm- 
ington, and in the repulse of the rebels before Corinth, May 
28th. The rebels evacuated Corinth on the 29th and General 
Stanley was engaged in the pursuit to Booneville. During 
the months of June, July and August he was in command 
of the troops on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. In the 
battle of luka he commanded one of Rosecrans' two divisions, 
and was specially commended in the official report. In the battle 
of Corinth, Octol)er 4tb, his division lost many valuable officers 
and men. It sustained the terriljle attack of the enemy on bat- 
teries Williams and Robinett. 

General Stanley joined the army of the Tennessee, under 
General Grant^ at Grand Junction, in October; but in Novem- 
ber, he was relieved from duty there, and was ordered to report 
to General Rosecrans, commanding the Army of tlic Cumber- 
land, who assigned him to the command of the cavalry of that 
army. On the 21st of November he was made Major-General of 
Volunteers. On the 15th of Decem])er he skirmished with and 
defeated the rebels at Franklin, Tennessee. He skirmished 
again at Nolinsville, and commanded the cavalry in the battle 
of Stone's River. In this engagement the duty of the cavalry 
was very arduous. From the 26th of December until the 4th 
of January. lS(i3, the saddles were only removed to groom the 
horses, and then they were immediately replaced. The cavalry 
pursued the rebels, and skirmished with the rear guard. Gen- 
eral Stanley^s command was again engaged at Bradyville, 



106 Burial of General Kosecrans. 

March 1st; at Snow Hill, April 2d; at Franklin, April 10th; 
and at Middleton, May 21st. In tlie Tiillahoma campaign 
General Stanley was engaged at Shelbyville and Elk River. 
He moved on an expedition to Hnntsville in July. He crossed 
the Tennessee River in command of all the cavalry, on an ex- 
pedition into Georgia, and on the 9th of September he skir- 
mished at Alpine. 

General Stanley was absent on sick-leave after the battle 
of Chickamauga, for two months ; and upon returning he was 
assigned to the command of the First Division, Fourth Army 
Corps. He was stationed at Bridgeport, Alabama, until De- 
cember, 1863, and then at Blue Springs, East Tennessee, until 
May, 1864. General Stanley was on the Atlanta campaign 
under Sherman, from May 2d until August 25th, and was en- 
gaged at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kene- 
saw, Jonesboro' and Lovejoy Station. He commanded the Fourth 
Corps, by appointment of the President, from July, 1864, 
until the close of the war; and during Hood^s raid upon Sher- 
man's communications, in October, he commanded two corps of 
the Army of the Cumherland. On the 27th of October he sep- 
arated from Sherman's army, and camped in Coosa Valley, 
Alabama. He marched the Fourth Corps to Chattanooga, and 
thence to Pulaski, confronting Hood's army, which was then 
threatening ISTashville and Middle Tennessee. He fell back 
through Columl^ia, and at Spring Hill was engaged with two 
corps of Hood's army. At the battle of Franklin, General 
Stanley came upon the field just as a portion of the National 
line was captured by the rebels. His timely arrival averted 
disaster; and placing himself at the head of a brigade, he led a 
charge which re-established the line. The soldiers followed 
him with enthusiasm calling out "Come on men; we can go 
wherever the General can." Just after re-taking the line, and 
while passing toward the left, the General's horse was killed; 
and no sooner did the General regain his feet than he was 



In Memorium — General SlunJeij. 107 

struck by a musket-ball in the back of the neck. But he still 
remained on the field. The wound disabled him from further 
service imtil January 24, 18G5, when he was placed on duty in 
East Tennessee. In July he moved with the Fourth Corps to 
Texas. He commanded the corps and the Middle District of 
Texas, until mustered out, February 1, 1866. 

General Stanley enjoyed to the fullest extent the confi- 
dence of his superior officers, and General Thomas^ in recom- 
mending him for promotion, says : "A more and cool and brave 
commander, it would be a difficult task to find, and though he 
has been a participant in many of the most sanguinary engage- 
ments of the war, his conduct has. on all occasions, been so gal- 
lant and marked that it would almost be an injustice to him to 
refer to any isolated battle-field. I refer, therefore, only to 
the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, because 
it is the more recent, and one in which his gallantry was so 
marked as to merit the admiration of all who saw him. It was 
here that his personal bravery was more decidedly brought out, 
perhaps, than on any other field; and the terrible destruction and 
defeat which disheartened and checked the fierce assaults of the 
enemy were due more to his heroism and gallantry than to that 
of any other officer on the field." Generals Sherman and 
Grant most cordially indorsed General Thomas^ recommenda- 
tion, and General Sheridan also added his testimony in favor 
of General Stanley. The authorities at Washington acted 
upon these testimonials, and rewarded General Stanley with 
the Colonelcy of the Twenty-second United States Infantry, and 
a Brevet-Major Generalship in the United States Army. 

In March, 1884, he was made a Brigadier-General in the 
Eegular establishment. 

He was given a military funeral. The services were 
held in St. Matthew's Church. The great building was 
croAvded with representatives of the various patriotic so- 



lOS Buruil of CicnPniJ 'liosccrans. 

cieties of Washington, and prominent representatives of every 
branch of the government. 

The military escort was composed of tiie regnh^rs sta- 
tioned in Washington, and was of the most imposing char- 
acter. 

The bnrial was at the Sokliers' Home where the Gen- 
eral had been Governor. One of the most tonching features 
of the funeral was the lining up of the thousand inmates of 
the Home to receive the funeral party. 

The official life of Washington, and the veterans of the 
Capital united to do honor to one of the Xation's worthiest 
soldiers. 



In Memoriam — General Robinson. 100 



BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILLIAM 
ANDREW ROBINSON. 

General Robinson was born June 19, 1830, in North-east 
Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant 
of one of the Scotch-Irish families of Cumberland County, 
Pennsylvania, who became the first settlers of Erie County at the 
close of the eighteenth century. 

He received his education in the common schools of that day 
and at an academy in Ashtabula, Ohio. 

He remained for a time on the ancestral farm at Xorth-east, 
then removed to Pittsburgh, which became his home for the rest of 
his life. 

While serving his earliest clerkship in Pittsburgh, the War 
of the Rebellion came and he was one of the first to answer 
President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand volunteers. 

April 17, 1861, four days after the fall of Fort Sumter, he 
enlisted in the Pittsburgh Rifles which became Company A in the 
Ninth Pennslyvania Reserves. 

He entered as a private and was promoted successively to 
Corporal and Sergeant in his Company, to Captain in the 
Seventy-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and 
to Captain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel in 
the Seventy-seventh Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 
and to Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers for gallant and 
meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13. 
1865. 

His first service was under General McCall in the Eastern 
Army on the Potomac and around Washington. 

His second service was under Generals Buell, Rosecrans 
and Thomas in the armies of the OJiio and the Cumberland, 



110 Burial of Generdi Rosecrans. 

operating in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and 
Georgia. 

His third service was nnder General Sheridan in Texas. 

From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, to Washington, to the 
Potomac, to Lonisville, Kentucky, to Nashville, to Columbia, 
to Shiloh, to Corinth ; thence through . luka, Florence, Athens 
and Bridgeport, to the Cumberland Mountains; thence north 
to Nashville, to Bowling Green, to Louisville; then about face 
to Perryville, to Lawrenceburg, to Nashville, to Triune, to 
Lavergne, to Stone's Eiver and Murfreesboro, to Lafayette, to 
Liberty Gap, to Tullahoma, to, and across the Cumberland 
Mountains, the Tennessee Eiver and the Sand Mountains, of 
Alabama, the Lookout Eange, of Georgia, to Chickamauga ; 
thence, as a prisoner of war, to Atlanta, to Libby Prison. 
Eichmond, Virginia, to the prison at Salisbury, North Caro- 
lina, to the prison at Macon, Georgia, to the prisons at 
Columbus and Charleston, South Carolina, to the stockade at 
Columbus, exchanged there; thence to his regiment in southfern 
Tennessee, to Pranklin, to Nashville, to the Tennessee Eiver 
again, to New Orleans, to Indianola, Green Lake, Victoria and the 
Gaudaloupe Eiver, Texas; thence to Camp Cadwalader, Philadel- 
phia, for muster out, and home to Pittsburgh — constituted his 
principle military itinerary. 

His leading engagement and battles were Shiloh, Corinth. 
Perryville, Lawrenceburg, Triune, Lavergne, Stone's Eiver, La- 
fayette, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Franklin and Nashville. 

He was wounded in the head and taken prisoner in the 
Saturday night fight, September 19, 1863, Chickamauga, Georgia. 
He was released after having been a prisoner of war fourteen 
months. At Charleston, South Carolina, he was placed under 
the fire of the Union Artillery. 

While our army lay at Murfreesboro, GENEf?AL Eosecrans 
prepared a Eoll of Honor out of which he proposed to organize 



In Memoriani — General Robinson. Ill 

a regiment for special service. General Eobiksox Avas on this 
roll but the plan was never carried out. 

General Robinson was a brave, skillful, intelligent soldier, 
conscientiously discharging all duties devolving upon him in 
the ranks or in command. Distinguished and honored as a soldier 
he was equally so in social, business and private life. 

Returning from the service he was for a time engaged in 
manufacturing, but leaving it he entered into a copartnership 
with four of his brothers as bankers and brokers under the name 
of Robinson Brothers, in which firm he remained until his death, 
October 4, 1902, then being its senior member. 

The house of Robinson Brothers was one of the most 
successful private banking establishments in the city of Pitts- 
burgh. In addition to the onerous duties of General Robinson 
as a business man he found much time to devote to his church 
and her educational, benevolent and charitable institutions. In 
these matters his head was clear, his counsel safe, always sought, 
and generally adopted. In addition to all other duties he kept 
in touch with his comrades, was a member and officer in the 
Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and usually attended its 
meetings, was also a member of the Union A'eteran Legion, the 
Grand Army of the Republic and of the Loyal Legion. 

He was a born financier, and wherever he moved, if there was 
a financial question, he was the leader. 

He was a meml)er and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Com- 
mission for the erection of monuments on the battle lines of 
the Pennsylvania organizations, in the battles of Chickamauga, 
Wauhatchie, Brown's Ferry, Orchard Knob, Lookovit Mountain 
and Missionary Ridge. In this work General Robinson took 
great interest and designed the monument for liis own regiment, 
but gave strict attention to all, and the Pennsylvania monuments 
stand out in bold relief amongst the many monuments on those 
historic fields. 



112 Burial of Generah Eosecrans. 

He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Commission for 
the erection of a monument to his regiment on the l)attle-field 
of Shiloh, that being the only Pennsylvania regiment in that 
battle. 

After the war he married Miss Alice Blaixe, daughter of 
the Honorable Alexander T. Blaixe, of Xorth-east. Pennsyl- 
vania, who survives him, with their children. Miss Alice Blaine^ 
Alexaxder Blaix^e and Willia:\i A., Jr. 

In 1897, with his daugliter and a niece he attended the 
Queen's Jubilee in London, and made an extensive tour of the 
old world. For several years before the General's death he was 
not in good health and with ]\Iits. Robix'sox traveled much, 
seeking help and rest, but tlie decline Avas gradual and sure. 
When the end came he laid down his life as calmly as lie would 
have met one of its ordinary transactions. He died at Walther's 
Park Sanitarium, near Reading. Pennsylvania. 

His faith in the doctrines and promises of Christianity was 
sublime and never wavered. At his funeral services, his com- 
modious residence and its surrounding grounds at Irwin and 
Wightman Avenues, Pittsl)urgh, were crowded with sorrowing 
relatives, friends, neighbors and old army comrades, assembled 
to do honor to him who had lived a good and a great life. 

His body was laid to rest in the family burying-ground at 
Korth-east, Pennsylvania, on the sliore of the lake where he was 
born and spent the da3's of boyhood and early manhood. A 
large concourse of old friends, neighbors, comrades of the Civil 
War and acquaintances attended the services in the cemetery 
chapel, conducted by the Reverexd Doctor Christie, and 
then, surrounding the grave, silently and gently, with tears and 
sobs, loving hands with sad hearts laid him to rest. 



Jtt ^emotiatn 



ROBERT ANDERSON 

23orn 
jftme 14, 1805 

Dicb 

October 26, 1871 

Ctacb 
66 years, 4 months, i 2 <^/<^jk^ 



Itt ^cmoxiam 



WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN 

3orn 

Febritary 8, 1820 

Dic6 

FebrtLary 14, 1891 

7 1 years, 6 ^^^^jj/i* 



In 


"^iinmm. 


GEORGE 


HENRY THOIVIAS 




23orn 


Jtily 31,1816 1 




Dicb 1 


March 28, 1870 1 




Ctcjcb 


S 3 years. 


7 months, 28 days 



Jit ^moxiam 



WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS 

Born 

September 6, i 8 1 9 

Dic6 

Marcli II, 1898 

ageb 
^% years, 5 niontlis, 5 <^&/i/i- 



in ^moxiam 



DON CARLOS BUELL 

3orn 

Marcli 23, 18 18 

Dicb 

November 19, 1898 

Clgcb 

8oj>'^<^ri', 7 months, 28 <^<^jyi" 



Jtt ^moxiam 



PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN 

3orn 
March 6, 183 I 

Dic6 

Aiigitst 5, 1 888 

5 7 years, 4 mo7ttks, 2 9 <^/<:ZjKi' 



In fUmox'mx 



DAVID SLOAN STANLEY 

3oru 

y^ime I, 1828 

March 13, 1902 

Ctaob 

7 3 years, 9 niontlis, i 2 <'&/Ki' 



Constitution and By-Laws 



-AND- 



List of Members 



-OF THE— 



Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 



121 



Constitution. 129 



CONSTITUTION. 
AKTICLE I. 

The name antl title of this association shall he the ''Society 
OF THE Army of the Cumberland/'' and said Society shall 
include ever^^ officer and soldier who has at any time served with 
honor in that army. 

Honorar}^ memhers may be elected from those officers who 
have become distinguished in any of the armies of the United 
States. 

ARTICLE II. 

The object of the Society shall be to perpetuate the memory 
of the fortunes and achievements of the Army of the Cuniher- 
land; to preserve that unanimity of loyal sentiment, and that 
kind and cordial feeling wliich has been an eminent character- 
istic of this army, and the main element of the power and 
success of its efforts in behalf of the cause of the Union. The 
history and glory of the officers and soldiers belonging to this 
army, who have fallen either on the field of battle or otherwise 
in the line of their duty, shall be a permanent and sacred trust 
to this Society, and every effort shall be made to collect and 
preserve the projjer memorials of their services, to inscribe 
their names upon the roll of honor, and transmit their fame to 
posterity. It shall also l)e the object and bounden duty of this 
Society to relieve, as far as possible, the families of such 
deceased officers and soldiers, when in indigent circumstances, 
either by the voluntary contribution of the members, or in such 
other manner as they may determine, when the cases are brought 
to their attention. This provision shall also hereafter apply to 



130 Burial of General Hosecrans. 

the suffering families of those members of tlie Society who may. 
in the future, be called hence, and the welfare of the soldier's 
widow and orphan shall forever be a holy trust in the hands of his 
surviving comrades. 

ARTICLE III. 

For the purpose of effecting these objects, the Society shall 
be organized by the annual election of a President, and a Vice- 
President from each state having soldiers in the Army of the 
Cumberland (to be nominated by members from the several 
states), a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and a 
Treasurer. 

The Society shall meet once in every year; the time and 
place of the next meeting to be selected by ballot at each meet- 
ing. All meml)ers of the Society who are prevented, by any 
cause, from personally attending are expected to notify the 
Corresponding Secretary, and to impart such information in re- 
gard to themselves as they may think proper, and as may be of 
interest to their brethren of the Society. 

Having a fraternal feeling for, and honoring the glorious 
efforts of our brothers in arms belonging to other armies, who 
have shared with us the service of saving our Government, the 
President and either of the Vice-Presidents shall be authorized 
to invite the attendance of any officer of the United States 
armies at anv of our annual meetings. 



By-Laws. 131 



BY-LAWS. 

I. All meetings of this Society shall be opened by prayer 
to Almighty God by a former Chaplain of the army, or by a 
minister of the Gospel, to be selected for the occasion by the 
President of the Society. 

II. Every othcer and soldier desiring to liecome a member 
of this Society shall, npon signing the Constitution, pay to the 
Treasurer the sum of five dollars as an initiation fee, and there- 
after the like sum of five dollars per annum, as yearly dues; and 
shall thereupon be entitled to a copy of the proceedings of the 
Society, when published, free of charge. [Subsequently amended 
so that the initiation fee also covers the first years dues.] 

III. Any member Avho shall be in arrears for dues for a 
period of two years shall have his name dropped from the rolls. 

IV. x\ll moneys |)aid out liy the Treasurer shall be upon 
the written order of the Recording Secretary, approved by the 
written consent of the President; and at each annual meeting 
of the Society, the Treasurer shall make a full report of his 
receipts and disbursements. 

V. When the place of the next annual meeting of this 
Society shall be decided upon, the President shall appoint an 
Executive Committee of three (3) members, resident at such place, 
or contiguous thereto, whose duty it shall be to make all need- 
ful preparations and arrangements for such meeting. 

YI. That prior to the final adjournment of the Society, at 
such annual meeting thereof, the President shall appoint a 
committee of three meml)ers, residents of the city in whieli 



132 Burial of General Rosecrans. 

such meeting shall he. and not officers of the Society, as a 
committee on bills and claims, and to such committee all claims 
against the Society, of ■\vhat<?ver character, should be referred 
for investigation and allowance l)cfore l)eing paid. 

VII. Xo member of the Society shall speak more than once 
on any question of business, and no longer than five minutes, 
without the consent of the Society first obtained. 

VIII. At each annual meeting there shall be selected, in 
such manner as the Society may determine, from the members 
of the Society, a person to deliver an address upon the history of 
the Army of the Cumherland, and the objects of the Society, at 
the next annual meeting. 

IX. Cushing's Manual of Parlianieniary Law shall be 
authority for the government and regulation of all meetings of 
this Society. 



Deceased Members. 131 



DECEASED MEMBERS. 



Anderson, N. L., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Anderson, Robert, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Andrew, W. W., Capt. 21st Indiana Volnnteer Battery. 

Askew, Frank, Col 15tli Ohio Vol. Inf., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y 

Banning, H. B., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Bannister, D., Bvt. Col., Paymaster U. S. V. 

Burnum, H. A., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Barrell, Henry C, Surgeon 38th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Bartholemew, W. H., Maj. 34th U. S. Infantry. 

Bates, Caleb, Maj. and A. D. C, U. S. V. 

Beardsle)^, Geo. A., Maj. 13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. 

Beatty, Samuel, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Bestow, Marcus P., Bvt. Col.. A. A. G. U. S. V. 

Bickham, Wm. D., Maj. and A. D. C. U. S. V. 

Bigelow, H. W., Capt. llith Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Bird. Ira H., Quartermaster 2d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Blaekmer, Collins, Bvt. Capt. U. S. A. 

Bogue, Eoswell G., Surgeon 19th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Boone, Thomas C, C^l. 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Boughton, Horace, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Boyd, James S., Lieut. Col. 51st Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Bracket, Albert G., Col. U. S. A. 

Brannan, John M., Bvt. ^laj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Bristow, Benjamin H.. Col. 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry. 

Brooke. Hunter, Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. V. 

Brown, Calvin W., Lieut. 2d Kentucky A'oluntoer Tnfantrv. 



13 Ji Burial of Generah Eosecrans. 



Brown, D. D. S., Maj. and Paymaster, U. S. Y. 

Brnmley. J. D., Surgeon U. S. V. 

Buckingham, E., Capt. 115th Ohio Vohmteer Infantry. 

Buell, D. 0.,, Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Buell, Geo. P., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 

Bunts, William C, Capt. 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Burke, J. W., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Burns, Eobert, Lieut. Col. 4th Michigan Yolunteor Cavalry. 

Burroughs, George, Bvt. Maj. IT. S. A. 

Butterfield, Daniel, Maj. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Campbell, J. A., A. A. G., Bvt. Brig Gen. U. S. Y. 

Capron, Albert M., Capt. 14tli Illinois Yolunteer Cavalry. 

Carlin, David B., Lieut. 18th Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Carson, J. J., Capt. 3d Kentucky Yolunteer Infantry. 

Case, C. E., Capt. 36th Indiana Yol. Inf., Signal Officer U. S. Y. 

Chalfant, David, Capt. 51st Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Chandler, Wm. P., Lieut. Col. 35tli Illinois Yolunteer Infantry, 

Christy, E. C, Chajjlain 78th Pennsylvania Yolunteer Inf. 

Cist, Henry M., Bvt Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Clancy, C. W., Col. 52d Ohio Yol. Infantry. 

Clarkson, Floyd, Bvt. Lieut. Col. 12th N. Y. Yol. Cavalry. 

Clendenin, Wm., Surgeon L^. S. Y. 

Cochran, E. H., Lieut. 15th Ohio Yol. Inf., Judge Advocate. 

Coflinbury, W. L., Capt. 1st Michigan Yolunteer Engineers. 

Collins, H. E., Lieut. Col. 2d Kentucky Yolunteer Cavalry. 

Conger, A. L., Lieut. 115th Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Conrad, Joseph, Col. U. S. A. 

Cooke, Warren W., Capt. 182d Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Crittenden, T. L., Col. U. S. A., Maj. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Croxton, John T., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. Y. 

'Cruft, Charles, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Curtis, James, Bvt. Maj. U. S. A. 

Davidson, Eobert B., Lieut. 35th Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 



Deceased Monhers. 135 



David, Charles W., Lieut. Col. 51st Illinois Yoluiiteer Inf. 

Davis, Hasbronck, Bvt. Gen. U. S. V. 

Davis, Jeff C, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Deane, C. H., Bvt. Lieut. Col., A. Q. M., U. S. V. 

Dickerson, C. J., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Donaldson, J. L., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Dornbusch, Henry, Capt. 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Doughty, W. N., Capt. 37th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Drouillard, J. P., Capt. U. S. A. 

Drury, Lu H., Maj. 1st Wisconsin A^olunteer Artillery. 

Du Barry, H. B.. Bvt. Maj. U. S. V. 

Ducat, Arthur C, Bvt. Brig. Gen., A. I. G., U. S. V. 

Earnshaw, J., Capt. U. S, V. 

Earnshaw, Wm., Chaplain TJ. S. V. 

Elliott, W. L., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Evans, J. D., Maj. 39th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Ewing, George W., Acting Ordnance Sei'geant 11. S. V. 

Faulkner. J. Iv., Col. 7tli Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry. 

Fearing, B. D., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Ferguson, Edward, Lieut. 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 

Fife, Joel A., Lieut. 75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Fisher, John Herbert, Capt. and A. D. C. 

Fisher, J. A.. Captain 2d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Fowler, David E., Bvt. Lieut. Col., C. S. U. S. V. 

Frankeberger, J. C, Lieut. Col. 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Frizell, Joseph AV., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. 8. A'. 

Frost, J. C, 1st Lieut. 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Fullerton. J. S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Gano, C. L., Lieut. Col. 69th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Gardner, Hezekiah, Bvt. Maj. IT. S. A. 

Gardner, J. W., Q. M. Ser. Battery I, 1st Ohio Light Artillery. 



136 Burial of Generat Rosecrans. 

Garfield, James A., Maj. Geu. U. S. V. 

Gibson, William H., Bvt. Brig-. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Gilbert, Charles C, Colonel U. S. A., Brig, Gen. U. S. V. 

Gist, Geo. W., Capt. 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 

Gleason, Newell, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Glenn, Geo. E., Col. and Paymaster U. S. A. 

Glover, Amos, Capt. 15th Ohio A^olunteer Infantry. 

Goddard, Calvin, Lieut. Col., Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Goodloe, William Cassius, Capt., Asst. Adjt. Gen., TJ. S. Y. 

Goodman, H. E., Bvt. Col. and Surgeon U. S. Y. 

Granger, Gordon, MaJ. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Granger, E. S., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Grant, U. S., Gen. U. S. A. 

Greenwood, W. H., Lieut. Col., Asst. Insp. Gen., U. S. Y. 

Grimshaw, James W., Lieut. 19th Ohio Yolunteer Battery. 

Gross, Ferdinand H., Bvt. Col. Med. Director, llth Army Corps. 

Gross, Samuel W., Surgeon U. S. Y. 

Guelker, Henry W.. Co. I, 32d Indiana A^olunteer Infantry. 

Guthrie, John B., Capt., U. S. A. 

Hambright, Henry A., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Handbeck, Lewis, Capt. 27^1 Illinois Yolunteer Infantry. 

Hannon, W., Capt. 124th Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Hansbrouck, Wm. L., Asst. Surg. 23d Kentucky A'olunteer Inf. 

Harding, A. C, Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Harris, L. A., Col. 2d Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Harris, W. H., Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. A. 

Harrison, Benjamin, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Harrison, Thomas J., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Hart, Samuel S., Capt. 13th Wisconsin Yolunteer Infantry. 

Hatry, A. G., Lieut. Col. 183d Ohio Yolunteer Infantry. 

Hazen, W. B., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Head, S. H., Captain and Quartermaster U. S. V. 

Healy, Joshua, Col. 151st Indiana Yolunteer Infantry. 



Deceased Memhers. ISl 



Heinzman, Frank, 1st Sergt., Co. F, 9tli Ohio Volunteer inf. 

Herron, Joseph, Private 98 Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

HoaglancI, C. N"., Surgeon 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Hobbs, A. M., Capt. 36th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Hollingsworth, E. W., Lieut. Col. 19th Ohio A^olunteer Inf. 

Hooker, Joseph, Bvt. Maj. Gen. IT. S. A. 

Hopkins, R. E., Maj. 149th New York Volunteer Infantry. 

Houk, L. C, Col. 3d Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. 

Howe, George W., Lieut. 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. 

Howland, Henry, Col. Quartermaster's Department. 

Huber, J. F., Bvt. Maj. and Commissary of Sub. U. S. V. 

Hugher, J. F., Capt. and Commissary of Sub., Bvt. Maj. 

Hunter, Morton C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Hunter, Eobert, Capt. Tlth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Isett, Jacol) H., Sergeant 15th Pennsylvania A^)lunteer Cavalry. 
Isom, John F., Capt. 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Jackson. H. W., Bvt. Lieut. C*ol. and Aid-de-Camp, U. S. V. 

Kaldenl^augh, Henry, Capt. 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 

Kilgour, W. M., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Kimball, Nathan, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Kinney Wm. H., Lieut. 89th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Kitchell, Edward S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y. 

Knapp, Alex. A., Capt. 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Lacey, Anderson P., Capt. 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
La Motte, Eobert S., Col. 13th U. S. Inf. 
Lane, P. P., Col. lltli Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Lawton, H. AV., Lieut. Col. and Insp. Gen. U. S. A. 
Le Favour, Heber, Bvt. Brig. Gen. LT. S. A^. 
Leonard, G. P., Capt. 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantr}'. 
Levering John, Bvt. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen. U, S. V. ' 
Litchfield, Henry G., Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. A. 



13S Burial of GenerfU Kosecrans. 

Lloyd.' Isaac, Lieut. 9th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. 

Lonabaugh, John E., Co. G, 15th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cav. 

Long, Eli, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Loomis, C. 0., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Loomis, John Mason, Col. U. S. V. 

Lowrie, James A., Maj. and Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. S. V. 

Ludlow, Israel, Bvt. Capt. U. S. A. 

Lyster, William J., Col. IJ. S. A. 

Lytle, William H., Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

McClurg, A. C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

McCreery, Wm. B., Col. 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry. 

McCrellis, James B., Private, Co. F, 16th Illinois Vol. Inf. 

McCrory, William, Bvt. Capt. 7th Co. Ohio Vol. Sharpshooters. 

McDowell, W. P., Maj. and Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. S. V. 

McGinnis, James T., Bvt. Maj. U. S. A. 

McGroarty, S. J., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

McKibben, Joseph, Col. and A. D. C. U. S. V. 

McMichael, Wm., Bvt. Col. and Asst. Adjt, Gen. U. S. V. 

McNett, Andrew J., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

McVean, D. C, Maj. 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 

Mallory, W. Ij., Capt. and Commissary of Subsistence U. S. V. 

Mannon, Thomas H., Maj. 45th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 

Margedant, Wm. C, Capt. Topographical Engineers, U. S. V. 

Martin, John A., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Marsh, Jason, Col. 74th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Mason, E. D., Bvt. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. S. V. 

Matthews, Stanley, Col. 51st Ohio Vohmteer Infantry. 

Maxwell, 0. C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Mendenliall, John, Col. U. S. A. 

Meredith, Sol., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Merrill, William E., Col. 1st IT. S. V. V. Engineers, Lieut. Col. 

Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 
Michie, James C, Capt. 1st L^. S. Veteran Volunteer Infantry. 



Deceased Memhevf^. 139 



.Miller, John F., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

]\lilward, H. K., Col. 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 

.Alindil, George W., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

j\Iitchell, John G., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

:\Iitchell, Joseph R., Bvt. Lieut. Col. 78th Ohio Vol. Infantry. 

]\Iontagnier, Jules J., Capt. Gth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

:\Ioocly, Granville, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Moore. 0. F.,, Col. 33d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Moore, Albert, Lieut. Col. 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Morgan, James D., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Morrison, Walter, Capt. 9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 

Morton, Quinn, Lieut. Col. 23d Missouri Volunteer Infantry. 

Mosenmeier, B., Asst. Surgeon 33d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Muscroft, C. S., Surgeon 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Mussey, E. D., Bvt. Brig. Gen. IT. S. V. 

]\russey, W. H., Lieut. Col. and Medical Inspector IT. S. V. 

Myers, L. D., Capt. and Asst. Quartermaster U. S. V. 

Negiey, James S., Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 
Kelson, J. A.., Private 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Kelson, W. H., Private 69th Ohio A^olunteer Infantry. 
Xoah, Jacob J., Caj^t. 2d Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. 
Kodine, E. A., Col. 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Opdycke, E., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Paine, C. K., Capt. 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 
Passel, George W., Private 37th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 
Passenger, W. H., Private 1st Michigan Volunteer Engineers. 
Patton, J. T., Capt. 93d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Pickands, James, Col. 12-4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Poe, 0. M., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 
Pohlmann, Morris, Capt. 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Porter, Wm. L., Bvt. Maj. U. S. A. 



IJfO Buri/i] of GrnemJ Eosccrans. 

Post, Philip S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Price, Curtis E., Surgeon 12th Tennessee Volunteer Cavah^. 

Eamsey. E. H., Bvt. Col. and A. A. G. U. S. V. 

Eansom, H. C, Bvt. Lieut. Col. and A. Q. M. U. S. A. 

Eaymoiid. Samuel B., Lieut. C*ol. 51st Illinois A^ol. Infantry. 

Eead, J. C, Col. and Commissary of Subsistence U. S. V. 

Eemick, E. A.. Lieut. 23d Michigan Volunteer Infantry. 

Eetilley, W. L., Lieut. 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Eeynolds, J. J., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Eichardson, W. B., Bvt. Maj. 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 

L^iekert. Thomas H., Bvt. Col. and A. Q. M. 

Eobinson, J. S., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Eobinson, W. A., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Eogers, S. T., Lieut. Sth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Eoper, George S., Bvt. Col. U. S. V. 

Eosecrans, Wm. S., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Eussell, A. 0., Maj. Gth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Sanborn, William, Bvt. Maj. Gen. IT. S. V. 

Sanford, J. E., Private 38th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Sclmeider, Ed. P., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Schumaker, Michael, Col. 13th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. 

Scott, John, Capt. 25th Illinois Vohmteer Infantry. 

Scott. W. T., Col. 3d Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 

Scoville, E. A., Lieut. Col. 128th Ohio Vohmteer Infantry. 

Sellock, John E., Adjt. 87th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Sexton, Geo. P., Corporal 88th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Sheridan, Philip H., Gen. U. S.A. 

Sherman, William T., Gen. U. S. A. 

Shipnes, 0. C. T., Col. 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 

Sidell, William H., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 

Simmons, Samuel, Lieut. Col. and Commissary of Sub. U. S. .V 

Sinclair, Wm. H., Bvt. Col. and A. A. G., L. t;. V. 



Deceased Members. I4I 



Slocimi, Henry W., iMaj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Smith, N. M., Bvt. Lieut. Col. 19th Penna. Vol. Cavalry. 

Standart, AVilliam E.. C*apt. 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. 

Stanley, David S., Bvt. Maj Gen. U. S. A. 

Starkvs^eather, John C, Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Steedman, James B., MaJ. Gen. U. S. V. 

Stokes, James H., Brig. Gen. IT. S. V. 

Stone, Henry, Bvt. Col. and A. A. G. U. S. V. 

Stoughton, W. L., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Streight, A, D.. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Studebaker, Peter, Capt. 101st Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Sturges, E. P., Bvt. Maj. 1st Ohio Volunteer Battery. 

Swaim, D. G., Brig. Gen., Judge Advocate General, IT. S. A. 

Sweet, B. J., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 

Sweet, John E., Col. 151st Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Synies, G. G., C*ol. 44th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. 

Taylor, Anthony, Capt. 15th Pennslyvania Volunteer Cavalry. 
Taylor, M. C, Col. 15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 
Taylor, John W., Lieut. Col. and Quartermaster IT. S. V. 
Thomas, George H., Maj. Gen. IT. S. A. 
Thornburgh, J. M., Col. 4th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. 
Toll, Charles H., Bvt. Maj., Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. V. 
Torrence, Joseph T., Private 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Tower, Z. B., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 
Townsend, Frederick, Bvt. Brig. Gen. IT. S. A. 
Townsend, H. H. W., Col. 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 
Tripp, Hagerman, Lieut. Col. 6th Indiana A^olunteer Infantry. 
Tyndale, Hector, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Underwood, A. B., Bvt. Maj. Gen. IT. S. V. 

Vail, N. J., Maj. 14th U. S. C. I., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 
VanAernam, Henry, Surg, 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. 



1-^2 Burial of General Bosecrans. 

YanDerveer, Ferdinand, Brig. Gen. U. S. A'. 

Van Dickey, M., Lieut. 94th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Van Doren. John A.. Private 21st Indiana Volunteer Battery. 

A^an Home, Thomas B., Chaplain U. S. A. 

Varney, E. W., Asst. Surgeon 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Wagner, George D., Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Walcutt, Charles C, Bvt. MaJ. Gen. U. S. V. 

Walworth, Nathan H.. Col. 42d Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 

Ward, Augustus, Bvt. Maj. 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Ward, Durbin, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Warnock, James, Cajjl. 2d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Wharton, G. C, Lieut. Col. 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 

Wlieoler, J. P., Asst. Surg. 24:th ^Visconsin Volunteer Infantry, 

Whipple, W. D., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 

Whitaker, Walter C, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Wliite, C. C, Lieut. 64tli Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

White, Julius, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Wliitman, E. B., Lieut. Col. and A. Q. M. IT. S. V. 

Whittlesey, H. M., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Willard, H. H., Private 4th Indiana Volunteer Cavahy. 

Willard, John P., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and Paymaster U. S. A. 

Williams, A. S., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Willich, A., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 

Willis, Clark, Maj. 51st Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Wilson, W., Capt. 124tli Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Wilson, W. C, Col. 40th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Wilson, W. W., Maj. 79th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Wilstach, C. F., Q. M. 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

Wing, Charles T., Bvt. Col. and A. Q. M. U. S. V. 

Wright, L. A., Sergeant 65th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Young, Thomas L., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Zahm, Lewis, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. 

Zollinger, C. A., Col. 129th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 



Officers of the Soviet i/. IJ^S 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 
FOR igoi-1902. 



President. 
Majou-Gkxeral David S. Stanley, U. S. A. {Deceased). 

Corirsponding Secretary. 
General H. \. Boyxton. 

Eecordiiig Secretary. 
Colonel J. W. Steele. 

Treasurer. 
Major John Tweedale, U. S. A. 

Historian. 
Majoi! Charles E. Belknap. 

Executive Committee. 

General James Barnett, Chairman, 

Captain J. W. Foley^ 

General W. A. Eobinson {Deceased), 

General Paul A. Oliver, 

Major W. F. Goodspeed, 

General J. G. Parkhurst, 

Officers of the Society, ex-officio. 
10 



Ik^ Burial of GenercFl Rosecrans. 



Vice-Presidents. 

Alabama, Colonel M. D. Wickersham, 
California, Colonel Peter T. Swaine, 
Colorado, Colonel M. H. Fitcie, 
Connecticut, Colonel A. W. Phillips, 
Delaware, General James H. Wilson, 
District of Columbia, General H. C. Corbin, 
Georgia, Major George S. Davis, 
Illinois, Major Matthew H. Peters, 
Indiana, Colonel C. E. Briant, 
Iowa, General D. B. Henderson, 
Kansas, Sergeant Henry J. Aten, 
Kentucky, Colonel W. E. jMilward, 
Maine, General Francis Fessenden, 
Maryland, General Orland Smith, 
Massachusetts, Colonel Horace IST. Fisher, 
Michigan, General H. M. Dufeield, 
Minnesota, General J. \V. Bishop, 
Missouri, Colonel Frank Askew^ 
Nebraska, General C, F. Manderson, 
New York, General Anson G. McCook, 
Ohio, General Thomas J. Wood, 
Pennsylvania, Captain E. D. Elwood^ 
Tennessee, Major W. J. Colburn, 
Wisconsin, Captain George I. Eobinson. 



Active Memhers. 14-5 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



HONOEAKY. 

Henderson, David B., Colonel, Dubiiqne. Iowa. 



Adams, H. H., Private Co. G, 125tli Ohio Vol. Inf., Kew York, 

K. Y. 
Alger, Enssell A., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich. 
Anderson, D. M., Asst. Surgeon IT. S. Y., Yenetia, Pa. 
Anderson, Edward, Col. 12th Indiana Yol. Cav., Quincy, Mass. 
Andrews, M. M., Capt. 185th Ohio Yol. Inf., Bay City, Mich. 
Ashbaugh, H. Y., Sergeant Co. I. 78tli Pennsylvania Yol. Inf., 

Leechburg, Pa. 
Aten, Henry J., Sergeant 85th Illinois Yol. Inf., Hiawatha, Kan. 
Atkins, Smith D., Bvt. Maj. Gen. H. S. Y., Freeport, 111. 
Atwood, Edwin B., Col., (Quartermaster's Department, U. S. A. 

Bachtell, Samuel. Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. Y., Columbus, 0. 
Baird, A., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Washington, D. C. 
Balding, Thomas E., Capt. 21:tli Wisconsin Yol. Inf., Bvt. Maj. 

U. S. Y., Milwaukee. Wis. 
Baldwin, A. P., Capt. Gth Ohio Yol. Battery, Akron, 0. 
Barnard, Job, Sergeant T3d Indiana Yol. Inf., Washington, 

D. C. 
Barnett, James, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Cleveland, 0. 
Balknap, Cliarles E., j\Iaj. 21st Michigan Yol. Inf., Grand 

Eapids. :\lic]i. 



lJf6 . Burkil of General Rosecrans. 

Betts, Charles M., Lieut. Col. loth Pennsylvania Vol. Cav., 

Philacleli:»hia, Pa. 
Bingham, J. D., Col. U. S. A., retired, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A., 

Philadelphia,, Pa. 
Bird, A. C, Co. D, 22d Illinois Vol. Inf.. Chicago, 111. 
Bishop, Edward F., Adjutant 89tli Illinois Vol. Inf., Denver, 

Col. 
Bishop, John S., Col. 108th U. S. C. Inf., Capt. II. S. A., retired, 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Bishop, Judson W., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., St. Paul, Minn. 
Bissinger, Philip, Capt. 79th Pennsylvania A^ol. Inf., Eeading. 

Pa. 
Blakeley, Archihald, Lieut. Col. 78th Pennsylvania Vol. Inf. 

Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Blakesley, A. M., Capt. 71th Illinois Vol. Inf., Bock Island, 111. 
Bluini, Jacob, Private Co. B, 1st Ohio Light Art., Cleveland, 0. 
Boal, Charles T., Lieut. 88th Illinois Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 
Bond, Frank S., Maj. and Aide-de-Canip V. S. V., New A^ork. 

N. Y. 
Bone, James II., Capt. 35th Ohio Vol. Inf., Huntsville, Ala. 
Bonnie, Wm. 0.. Private Co. B. 9tli Ohio Inf., Louisville. 

Boring, E. McC, 1st Lieut. 79th Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Boyd, Robert M., Private 24th Wisconsin Vol. Inf., Kacine, Wis. 

Boynton, H. V., Bvt. Brig. Gen. IT.* S. V., Washington, D. C. 

Bradley, L. P., Col. U. S. A., retired: Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., 
Tacoma, Washington. 

Breckinridge, J. C, Brig. Gen., and Insp. Gen. U. S. A., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Bremner, David F., Capt. 19th Illinois Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 

Briant, C. C, Col. 88th Indiana Vol. Inf., Huntington, Ind. 

Brigham, Joseph H.. Lieut. Col. 69th Ohio A"ol. Inf., Bvt. Col. 
U. S. v., Washino-ton. D. C. 



Active Memhers. lJf7 



Euckinghaiu. F. A., Hosi)ital Stewanl '2d Alinn. Vol. Inf., Rock- 
ford, 111. 
r.urklialk'r. J. L.. ('apt. S(;th Illinois Vol. Inf., Galesburg. 111. 
Bnrnett, H. L., Bvt. Brig. Gen. H. S. V., New York, X. Y. 
Bnrt. Andrew S., Brig. Gen. IT. S. A., retired. 
Bntler, John G., Lieut. Col., Ordnance Department U. S. A. 

Gable, G. A., Gapt. Lstli Ohio Vol. Inf.. Xelsonville, 0. 
Gannon, Thomas J., Lieut. Oth Kentucky Vol. Inf., Baltimore, 

Maryland. 
C^nrlin, W. P., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired Bvt. MaJ. Gen., 

Sjjokane, Wash. 
Garlton, Galeb Henrj-, Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
Carlton, Thomas J., Lieut. 32d Indiana Vol. Inf., Plainfield, 

Ind. 
Carman, E. A., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Washington, D. C. 
Carnahan, James E., Ca]it. 8(ith Indiana A'ol. Inf., Indianapolis, 

Ind. 
Carrington, Julius ]\I., Lieut. 10th Michigan Vol. Inf., Cleveland, 

Ohio. 
Gary, Eugene, Capt. 1st Wisconsin Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 
Chamberlain, H. S., Capt. and A. Q. M., U. S. V., Chattanooga, 

Tenn. 
Chaml)erlain, Orville T., Capt. :4th Indiana A'ol. Inf.. Elkhart, 

Ind. 
Chamberlin, Wm. H., Private 3(itli Illinois Vol. Inf.. Pittsfield, 

Mass. 
Cleary. Peter J. A., Colonel, Pep. Surg. (tcu. V. S. A. 
Carrington, Henry B., Col, U. S. A., retired. Brig. Gen. L". S. V., 

Hyde Park, Mass. 
Clem. John L.. Liimt. Col., Quarterniastcr's D(^partment, IT. S. A. 
Coffman, D. ]\1.. Pfi\ate Ttli Ohio Vol. Cav.. Pockwood, Tenn. 
Coe, E. S.. Li.'ut. Col. PMitli Ohio \(.l. Inf.. Xrw York. \. Y. 



l-'iS Burial of Generaf Roserrans. 

Cohn, Henr}^ S.. Lieut. lOGtli Ohio Ynl. Inf., Louisville, Kv. 

Colburn, W. J.. Capt. and A. Q. ]\L, Bvt. Maj. U. S. V., Chat- 
tanooga, Tenn. 

Cole, George E., Private 10th Michigan Yol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 

Conant. John S., 2d Lieut. 25th Michigan A"ol. Inf., Detroit, 
Mich. 

Conawa}^, Jolm F., 1st Lieut. 15th Pennsylvania Yol. Cav., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Conover, John, Col. 8th Kansas Yol. Inf., Kansas City, Mo. 

Cope, Alexis, Capt. loth Ohio Yol. Inf., Columbus, 0. 

Corbin, Henry C, Maj. Gen. and Adj. Gen. U. S. A., Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Cowin, W. C, Capt. 1st Ohio Yol. Inf., Cleveland, 0. 

Cox, Samuel K., Capt. 17th Kentucky Yol. Inf., Hartford, Ky. 

Crane, A. B., Lieut. Col. 85th Indiana Yol. Inf., Scaresdale, 
N. Y. 

Crane, William E., Capt. 4th Ohio Yol. Inf., Cincinnati, 0. 

Crowder, 0. H., Lieut. 17th Indiana Yol. Inf., Sullivan, Ind. 

Cudner, Albert M., Private 74th Illinois A^ol. Inf., Adj. 42d L'.. 
S. C. Inf., New York, X. Y. 

Cumniings, Henry H., Capt. 105th Ohio Yol. Inf., Tidioute, Pa. 

Davis, Wirt, Colonel, U. S. A., retired, Pichmond, Ya. 

Dawdy, L. J., Adj. 86th Illinois Yol. Inf., Peoria, 111. 

Dean, Henry S., Lieut. Col. 22d Mich. A"ol. Inf., Ann Harbor, 

Mich. 
Devol, Geo. H., Adj. 38th Ind. Yol. Inf., ^ew Albany, Ind, 
Dickinson, Julian G., Adj. 4th Michigan Yol. Cav., Detroit, 

Mich. 
Donaldson, J. C, Capt. 38th Ohio Yol. Inf.. Columbus, 0. " 
Donahower, Jeremiah Chester, Capt. 2d ]\linn. Yol. Inf.. St. Paul, 

Minn. 
Doolittle, Charles C, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. Y.. Toledo, 
Dowling, P. H., Capt. 111th Ohio Yol. Inf., Toledo, 0. 



Active Memhers. 119 



Dreifus, Artluir, I'rivati' 911i Ohio \ol. iiii'., St. Louis, Mo. 

Duffield, Henry M.. Adj. 9tli Mich. Vol. Inf., Detroit, Mich. 

Durand, Calvin. Sergeant CJiieago Board of Trade Battery, 
Chicago, 111. 

Dupre, Chas. F., Sergeant Co. H, ith Kentucky Vol. Cav., Louis- 
ville, Ky. 

Ebi, Monroe, 1st Lieut. 19th Ohio Vol. Inf., Davenport, Iowa. 
Ellis, Frank. Cai)t. 84th Indiana Vol. Inf., Muncie, Ind. 
Elwood, E. D., Capt. U. S. V.. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Elwood, James G.. Capt. 100th Illinois Vol. Inf., Joliet, 111. 
Ewers, Ezra P.. Colonel U. S. A., retired, Eochester, N. Y. 

Fake, Fred L.. Quartermaster 89th 111. Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 
Farnum, H. C, Port Huron, Mich. 

Farcjuhar, John M., Maj. 89th Illinois Vol. Inf., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Fessenden, Francis, Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Maj. Gen. U. 

S. v., Portland, Me. 
Fisher, Horace N'., Lieut. Col. and Asst. Ins. Gen., U. S. V., 

Boston, Mass. 
Fisher, Samuel H., Capt. Co. A., McLaughlin's Squadron, Den- 
ver, Col. 
Fitch, M. H.. Lieut. Col. 21st Wisconsin Vol. Inf., Pueblo, 

Col. 
Fitzliugh, Charles L., Col. 6th Xew York Cav., Bvt. Brig. Gen., 

U. S. v., Allegheny, Pa. 
Foering, J. 0., Bvt. Capt. 28th Pennsylvania Inf., Philadelphia, 

Pa. 
Foley, J. W., Captain 181st Ohio Vol. Inf., Cincinnati, 0. 
Foley, Timothy, Private Co. C, 18th U. S. Inf., Dunkirk, 

X. Y. 
Foote, Allen E.. Lieut. 21st Michigan "S'ol. Inf., Tacoma Park, 

D. C. 



150 Burial of Generaf Bosecrans. 

Foraker, Joseph B.. Bvt. Capt. 89th Ohio A^ol. Inf.. Cincinnati, 

Ohio. 
Fordj'ce, Samuel W.. Capt. 1st Ohio YoL Cav., St. Louis. Mo. 
Forgey. J. S., Co. B. 10th Indiana Yoh Inf., Ottawa, Kan. 
Forsyth, James W., Maj. Gen. F. S. A., retired, Columbus. 0. 
Fox, P. Y.. Bvt. Col. 1st r. S. Y. Y. Engineers, Grand Eapids. 

Mich. 
Free, John W., Maj. 31st Ohio Yol. Inf.. Xew Lexington, 0. 
Freeman, Henry Y.. Capt. 12th U. S. C. I., Chicago, 111. 

Gage, Henry H.. Corporal 96th Illinois Yol. Inf.. Chicago, 111. 

Gahagan, A. J., Lieut. 1st Tennessee Yol. Cav., Chattanooga. 
Tenn. 

Garnsey, C. B., Sergeant, 100th Illinois Yol. Inf., Joliet, 111." 

Garrigus, ]\Iilton, Capt. 39th Indiana Yol. Inf., Kokomo, Ind. 

Gentsch, Charles, Q. M. 51st Ohio Yol. Inf.. Cleveland. 0. 

Giauque, Florien, Sergeant 10'2d Ohio Yol. Inf.. Cincinnati. 0. 

Gifford, H. X.. Capt. 2d Ohio Heavy Arty.. Louisville. Ky. 

Gilbert, Charles C. Col. U. S. A., retired, Baltimore. Md. 

Gildersleeve. Henry A.. Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. Y., Xew York, 
X. Y. 

Gillespie. Charles B.. Capt. TSth Pennsyhania Yol. Inf.. Free- 
port, Pa. 

Gilman, J. H.. Lieut. Col. U. S. A., retired, Xew York. X. Y. 

Gilpin, L. L., Corporal 51st Ohio Yol. Inf.. Portland. Ind. 

Goodloe. Green Cla}', Lieut. 23d Kentucky Yol. Inf., Col. TJ. S. 
^Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 

Goodman, Samuel, Bvt. Col. 2Sth P('niisly\;inia \'i>l. inf.. Pliila- 
. delphia. Pa. 

Goodspeed. W. F., Maj. 1st Ohio \'ol. Light Arty., Columbus, 0. 

Green, Pobert P.. Private Co. F. ISth U. S. Inf., Columbus. 0. 

Greene, John P.. Capt. and A. A. G. U. S. Y.. Philadelphia. Pa. 

Grosvenor. Charles H.. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Athens. 0. 



Act! re Members. 151 



Haffner. Christ., Private, Co. I, Otli Ohio Yol. Tnf.. Cincinnati, 
Oliio. 

Haight, Edward, Bvt. CoL 16th U. S. Inf., New York, N. Y. 

Hale, John H., Capt. 13th Mich. Yoh Inf., AVankon, Iowa. 

Hall, Eohert H., Brig. G«i. IT. S. A., retired. 

Hallenhiirg, C, Lieut. 1st Ohio Yol. Inf., Louisville, Ky. 

Hancock, E. A., Maj. 9th Pennsylvania Yol. Cav., Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Hapeman, Douglas, Col. 104th Illinois Yol. Inf., Ottawa, 111. 

Harlan, John M., Col. lOtli Kentucky Yol. Inf., Washington, 
D. C. 

Harnian, P. M.. Capt. 93d Ohio Yol. Inf., Dayton, 0. 

Harrison, C. E., Capt. 89t]i Ohio Yol. Inf., Colmnhiis, 0. 

Heard, J. Theo., Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. Y., Medical Director, 
itli Army Corps, Boston, Mass. 

Hedges, J. S., Bvt. Maj. 4th I'. S. Cav., Mansfield, 0. 

Hessler. E. M.. Hospital Steward, 1st Ohio Yol. Art., Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

Hiuioc. Stejihen 0., Surgeon l.")tli Wisconsin Yol. Inf., Kansas 
City, Mo. 

Hinkley. L. D., 1st Lieut. lOtli Wisconsin Yol. Inf., Waupun, 
Wis. 

Hohson. E. H., Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Greenburg, Ky. 

Hodges, Henry C, Col. U. S. A., retired, Buffalo, X. Y. 

Hodgkins, Wni. H., Bvt. Maj. 3Gth Massacliusetts Yol. Inf., 
Boston. ]\Iass. 

Holmes, J. T., Bvt. Lieut. Col. .V3d Ohio Yol. Inf., Columbus. 
Ohio. 

Hood, Calvin, Maj. 11th Michigan Yol. Inf., Emporia, Kansas. 

Hopkins. George H., Sergeant 17th Alichigan Yol. Inf.. Detroit. 
Mich. 

Hougli, Alfred L., Col. V. S. A., retired, Xew York, X. Y. 

Ho\\('. Silas, 1st Lieut. ISth Kentucky \"ol. Inf. and Maj. -loth 
Kentuckv Yol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 



152 Burial of General Bosecrans. 

Hiiggins, E. L.. Col. 3d U. S. Cav. 

Hummell, Joseph, Surgeon's Steward IT. S. X.. Cincinnati. 0. 

Hunt, P. B., Lieut. Col. 4th Kentucky Vol. Cav., Dallas, Tex. 

Irwin, B. J. D., Col. and Asst. Surg. Gen. V. S. A., retired^ 
Chicago, 111. 

Jacob, R. T., Col. 9th Kentucky Yol. Inf.. Louisville. Ky. 

James, F. B., Maj. 55th Ohio Yol. Inf., Cincinnati, 0. 

Jocel}Ti, Stephen P., Colonel 14th U. S. Inf. 

Jones, Prank J., Bvt. Maj. and Aid-de-Camp. L. S. \., Cincin- 
nati, 0. 

Jones, James Kilbourne, Lieut. 24th Ohio Inf., Columl^us, 0. 

Jones, Sidney B., Lieut. Col. 42d Kentucky Yol. Inf., Chicago^ 
111. 

Keen, Joseph S., Co. D, 13th ]\Iichigan Yol. Inf., Detroit, 

Mich. 
Kell, Wm. H., Maj. U. S. A., retired, ^Yashington, D. C. 
Kellogg, S: C, Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. A., retired, Washington, 

D. C. 
Kelly, H. A., Lieut. 8th Tennessee Yol. Cav., Washington, 

D. C. 
Kelly, R. M., Col. 4th Kentucky Yol. Inf.. Louisville, Ky. 
Kimball, Nelson P., Sergeant 125th Illinois Yol. Inf., Weiser,. 

Idaho. 
Kitchen, Samuel, Asst. Surgeon U. S. Y., East Saginaw, Mich. 
Kniffin, G. C, Lieut. Col. and Commissary of Subsistence, TJ. S. Y.,. 

Tacoma Park, D. C. 
Kutzleb, Anton, Bugler Co. B., 9th Ohio A'ol. Inf.. Louisville,. 

Lafferty, Nelson B., Sergeant 1st Ohio Yol. Heavy Artillery^ 
Hillsboro, 0. 



Active Memhers. 153 



Lambert, Wm. H., Bvt. Maj. 33d New Jersey Vol. Inf., Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Lang, John C, Private 100th Illinois Vol. Inf., Joliet, 111. 

Lawler, Thomas G., Col. 3d Illinois Vol. Inf., Eockford, 111. 

Leeson, Eichard L., Capt. 68th Indiana \o\. Inf., Bvt. Col. U. S. 
v., Elwood, Ind. 

Liddell, Oliver B., 1st Lieut. 68th Indiana Vol. Inf., Denver, 
Colorado. 

Lincoln, Charles P., Capt. 19th Michigan Vol. Inf., Washington, 
D. C. 

Lockman, John T., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. \., New York, N. Y. 

Lybrand, Archibald, Capt. T3d Indiana Vol. Inf., Delaware, 0. 

McAdams, AYra., Lieut. 59th Illinois A"ol. Inf., Kansas, Edgar 
Co., 111. 

McCaskey, William S., Col. 20th U. S. Inf. 

McCook, Anson G., Bvt., Brig. Gen. U. S. V., New York, N. Y. 

McCook, John J., Bvt. Col. U. S. V., New York, N. Y. 

McKibbin, Chambers, Co. D, 73d Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

Mr-Kinney, Bernard, Private Co. D., 10th Olno \'ol. Inf., Arthur, 
Tenn. 

McMahon, Wm. E., 1st Lieut., Co. E., 58t]i Indiana Vol. Inf., 
Huntingburg, Ind. 

MacKenzie, AVm. A., Co. B., T8th Illinois Vol. Inf., Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

Manderson, Charles F., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Omaha, Neb. 

Mansfield, I. Franc, Bvt. Capt. and A. A. Q. M. U. S. V., 
Cannelton, Pa. 

Mauzy. James H.. Capt. 68th Indiana Vol. Inf., Eushville, 
Ind. 

]\layberry, W. W., Lieut., loth Pennsylvania Vol. Cav., Charles- 
ton, S. C. 

Mover, E. S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Cleveland, 0. 



15Jf Burial of General Rosecrans. 

Mills, Anson, Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Washington, D. C. 

Milward, Will E., Col. 21st Kentucky Vol. Inf., Lexington, Ky. 

Mitchell. John L.. 1st Lieut. 24th Wisconsin A^ol. Inf., Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

Mizner, Henry K., Col. IT. S. A., retired, and Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. 
S. v., Detroit, Mich. 

Morey, J. E., Co. H., 93d Ohio Vol. Inf.. Hamilton. 0. 

Morgan, 0. H., Capt. Tth Indiana Vol. Batt'y. Chicago, 111. 

Morgan, W. A., Lieut. 23d Kentucky Vol. Int.. Cottonwood Falls, 
Kan. 

Morgan, W. J., Capt. 41st Ohio Vol. Inf., Cleveland, 0. 

Morrison, A. M., Surgeon 23d Kentucky Vol. Inf., Goshen, Ky., 

Mott, George M., Corporal Co. E.. 9th Michigan Vol. Inf., Sacra- 
mento, Cal. 

Muller, Charles F., Capt. 29th reunsylvania Vol. Inf., Phila- 
delj)hia. Pa. 

Murphy, Wm. J., Lieut. 1st Illinois Vol. Light Art., Phoenix, 
Ariz. 

]\runger, Wm. A.. Capt. Co. G., 100th Illinois A'ol. Inf., Hanni- 
hal. Mo. 

Morgan, John Caleh, Capt. Co. B., 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery, 
Washington, D. C. 

Xelson, W. H., Capt. Sth Tennessee Vol. Cav., Backwoods, 

Tenn. 
Neville, Eichard, Corporal Co. E., 41st 0. V. I., Cleveland, 0. 
Nicholas, Wm., Capt. 51st Ohio Vol. Inf., Columbus, 0. 
Nicholson, John P., Bvt. Lieut. Col. 2Sth Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., 

Philadelj^hia, Pa. 
Noljle, S. C, Private 11th :?klichigan Vol. Inf.. Columbus, 0. 
Norrjngton, Henry H., Serg. Batt'y A, 1st ^lichigan Vol. Light 

Arty., West Bay City, Mich. 
Norwood, C. W., Q. M. Serg. 21st Kentucky \o\. Inf.. Chatta- 

noooa, Tenn. 



Actirc Mriiibrr-'i. loo 



Xoiirse, Benjaiiiiii F.. rvivato C'liica.uo Board of Trade Battery, 
Chicago, 111. 

Oliver, Paul A., Bvt. Brig. Gen. V. S. A\. Oliver's Mills, Pa. 
Osborn, HartAvell, C^apt. Tiotli Ohio Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 
Otto, John, 1st Lieut. 11th Indiana A'ol. Art., Anburn, Ind. 

Palmer. Lowell Mason. 1st Lieut. Ohio A'ol. Light Arty., Kew 

York, N. Y. 
Palmer. Wm. J.. B\t. Brig. Gen. IT. S. Y., New York, N. Y. 
Parkhurst. J. G., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Coldwater, Mich. 
Patten, George W., (*apt. 7od Illinois Vol. Inf., St. Elmo, 
Tenn. 

Patten, Z. C., Lieut. UOth New York A'ol. Inf., Chattanooga, 
Tenn. 

Peckham, Silas C, Privat(> Cliieago Board of Trade Batt'y, Pe- 
tersburg, N. Y. 
Perkins, Geo. T., Lieut. Col. 105th Ohio Y(^l. Inf.. Akron, 0. 

Perry, Henry F., Capt. 3Sth Indiana A^ol. Inf., Bloomington, 
Ind. 

Peters, Matthew, H., Bvt. Maj. Uth Ohio A^)l. Inf., Watseka, 
111. 

Pettit, W. H.. Lieut. 4th Indiana Yol. Battery, Atlanta, Idaho. 

Phillips, A. W.. Asst. Surgeon 149th New York Am:,1. Inf., Bir- 
mingham, Conn. 

Phisterer, Frederick, Lieut. 18th V. S. Inf.. Albany, N. Y. 

Pierson, Stephen, Adj. 33d New Jersey Vol. Inf., Norristown, 
N. J. 

Pittman, Samuel E., Bvt. Lieut. Col. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich. 

Porter, Horace, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Paris, France. 

Pratt, R. H., Lieut. Col. 15th U. S. Cavalry. 

Price, S. W., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Louisville, Ky. 

Pugh, Wm. H., Lieut. 17 th Ohio Vol. Inf., Washington, D. C. 

Putman, David, Col. 152d Ohio Vol. Inf., Greenville, 0. 

Putnam, Douglas, Lieut. Col. 92d Ohio Vol. Inf., Ashland, Ky. 



156 Burial of General Bosecrans. 

Eanney, George E., Surgeon 2d Michigan Vol. Cav., Lansing, 

Mich. 
Eandall, Charles H., Lieut. 1st Ohio Light Arty., Cleveland, 0. 
Beed, A. H., Lieut. 2d Minnesota Yol. Inf., Glencoe, Minn. 
Eeed, Henry A., Major IT. S. Artillery Corps. 
Eeimers, August, 1st Lieut. 15th Missouri Yol. Inf.. Davenport, 

Iowa. 
Eeppert, W. E., Corp. 15th Pennsylvania Yol. Cav.. Columbus, 

0. 
Eichard, E. S., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and A. A. G.. U. 8. Y., Chicago, 

111. 
Eitchey, Wm. H., Capt. Co. ]\I., 11th Ky. Yol. Cav., Shelbyville, 

Eobbins, E. B., Bvt. Lieut. Col. 4th IMiehigan Yol. Cav., Adrian, 
Mich. 

Eobinson, George I., Capt. Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

Eobinson, G. S., Private 115t]i Illinois Yol. Inf.. Sioux City, la. 

Eockwell, Alnion F., Lieut. Col. U. S. A., retired. 

Eothenbush, Philip, Capt. 35th 0. Y. I., Hamilton, 0. 

Euhm, John, Lieut. 14tli U. S. C. Inf., A^ashville, Tenn. 

Eust, H. A., Maj. 27th Illinois Yol. Inf.. Chicago, 111. 

Schenck, Alexander D., Major of Artillery. I'. S. A. 
Schneider, George A., 1st Sergeant Co. C, 9th Ohio Yol. Inf., 

Cincinnati, 0. 
Schofield, John M,, Lieut. Gen. U. S. A., retired. 
Scott, Launeelot L., Sergeant 18th Oliio Yol. Inf., iS"elson- 

ville, 0. 
Scott, Thomas W., Bvt. Maj. 9Sth Illinois Yol. Inf., Fairfield, 

111. 
Sliafter, W. E., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired, and Maj. Gen. F. S. 

Y., San Francisco, Cal. 



Active Memhers. 151 



Sharpe, David N"., Adjt. loth Kentucky Vol. Inf., Shelby- 
ville, Ivy. 

Shellenberger, James E., Musician Co. B.^ 94tli Ohio Voh Inf., 
Fort Ringgold, Texas. 

Sherman. Frank T., Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Waukegan, 111. 

Sherratt, John H., Capt. i2d U. S. C. Inf., Eockford, 111. 

Sheridan, M. Y.. Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired. 

Siebert, John, Capt. 13th Ohio Yol. Inf., Columbus, 0. 

Silliman. E. C, Lieut. 86th Illinois Yol. Inf., Chenoa, 111. 

Simpson, John H., Capt. 4th Michigan Yol. Cav., San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Skinner, George W., Capt. TTth Pennsylvania Yol. Inf., Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

Slade, Samuel. Capt. 51st Ohio Yol. Inf., Port Washing- 
ton, 0. 

Slocum, J. J., Col. U. S. Y., New York, N. Y. 

Smith, Charles 0.. Private Co. G., 102d Ohio Yol. Inf., Lan- 
caster, 0. 

Smith. Frank G.. Colonel of Artillery, U. S. A. 

Smith, Ira E., Corp. 3d Wisconsin Yol. Light Artillery, Dart- 
ford, Wis. 

SmiCh, J. C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Chicago, 111. 

Smith, Orland, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Chicago, 111. 

Smith, W. J.. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Y., Memphis, Tenn. 

Somers. Orlando A., Private 39th Indiana Yol. Inf., Kokomo. 
Ind. 

Spalding, E. G., Lieut, ^^d Michigan Yol. Inf., Port Huron, 
Mich. 

Speed, John, Capt. and A. A. G., 3d Division, 30th Corps. 
Taylorsville, Ky. 

Speer, Alex. J\L. Bvt. Lieut. Col. and Surgeon, U, S. Y., Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

Stanton. Campbell, Sergeant Co. D., 77th Pennsylvania Yol. 
Inf.. Sharpsburg, Pa. 



loS Burial of Gcnrral Eosecrans. 

Starkweather, Perrv. Pri\ate !)tli Miehi.uan Yo]. Inf., Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Steele, John W., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and Aide-de-Camp U. S. Y.. 
Oberlin. 0. 

Stevenson, Alex. F., Bvt. Col. 42d 111. Vol. Inf., Chicago. 111. 

Stewart, M. X. U., Capt. lOOth Illinois A'ol. Inf., Wilming- 
ton, 111. 

Sullivant, Lyne Starling, Maj. 113th Ohio Vol. Inf., Colum- 
bns, 0. 

Swain, Edgar D.. Bvt. Col. 4:2d Illinois Vol. Inf., Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. 

Swaine, Peter T., Col. U. S. A., retired, Los Xietos, Cal. 

Swigert, Charles P., Private Co. H. -12d Illinois Vol. Inf.. 
Chicago, 111. 

Taggart, Emmet F., Private Co. I, 19-^d Oiiio Vol. Inf., 

Akron, 0. 
Tannehill, C. 0., Capt. Goth Ohio Vol. Inf.. Englewood, Kan. 
Tarwater, James F., Private Co. E, Uth Tennessee A"ol. Cav., 

Rockwood, Tenn. 
Taylor, J. G., Capt. and Aide-de-Camp U. S. V., Cincinnati, 0. 
Thruston. G. P., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., XashviUe, Tenn. 
Town, F. L., Col. Medical Department V. S. A., retired. 
Townsend, E. F., Col. U. S. A., retired, Washington, ' D. C. 
Trowbridge, L. S., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich. 
Tattle, Russell. M., Bvt. Capt. lOTth New York Vol. Inf., Hor- 

nellsville, N. Y. 
Tweedale, John, Maj. U. S. A., Washington. D. C. 

Ullum, Andrew W., Corporal Co. B, iSth Ohio Vol. Inf., 
Athens, 0. 

Waite, Norman, jMaj. isitth Ohio Vol. Inf., Boston, Mass. 
Walton, Thomas J., Q. M. 19th Ohio Vol. Inf., Salem, 0. 



Active Members. 159 



Ward. J. H., Lieut. Col. 27th Kentucky Vol. Inf., Louis- 
ville. Ky. 

Warner, D. B., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.. St. John, New Bruns- 
wick. 

Warner, Willard, Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V., Chattanoooa, Tenn. 

Warnoek, W. R., Maj. 95th Ohio Vol. Inf., Urbana, 0. 

Warren, W. R., Serg. Maj. 6th Indiana Vol. Inf., Forbush, la. 

Warren, Charles S., Private 132d Illinois Vol. Inf., Butte, 
Mont. 

Welch, Geo. W., Lieut. 90th Ohio Vol. Inf., Lancaster, 0. 

Welch, Johnson M., Maj. 18th Ohio Vol. Inf., Athens, 0. 

Welton, Frank G., Co. B, 42d Illinois Vol. Inf., Cambridge, 111. 

Whitehall, A. L., Private 9th Indiana Vol. Inf., Chicago, 111. 

Wickersham, M. D., Col. and Q. M. U. S. V., Mobile, Ala. 

Wilder, John T., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Wilbur, Almerick W., Capt. Battery A, 1st Michigan Light Art., 
Rochester, N. Y. 

Wilkin, Eli, Bvt. Maj. 31st Ohio Vol. Inf., Purity. 0. 

Williams, Henry M., 11th Indiana Vol. Battery, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 

Wills, A. W., Bvt. Lieut. Col. and A. Q. M. U. S. V., Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Wilson. James A., Brig. Gen. U. S. A., retired; Maj. Gen. V. 
S. v., Wilmington, Del. 

Wilson, Wm., Jr., Capt. 33d New Jersey Vol. Inf., Mount A^er- 
non, N. Y. 

Wing, Lucien M., Capt. 19th Michigan Vol. Inf., Cold Water, 
Mich. 

Winkler, F. C, Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Milwaukee, Wis. 

Wolcott, H. K., Maj. 42d Illinois Vol. Inf., Batavia, 111. 

Wood, Bradford R., Capt. 44th New York Vol. Inf., Bvt. Maj. 
U. S. v., Albany, N. Y. 

Wood, Thomas J., Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A., retired, Dayton, 0. 

Woods, J. T., Surgeon 99th Ohio Vol. Inf., Washington, D. C. 

Wormer, G. S., Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V., Detroit, Mich. 



